Additionally, borrowing a page from U.S. foreign policy, I decided to send a message to a government that was becoming increasingly hostile.
Bombing the Murrah Federal Building was morally and strategically equivalent to the U.S. hitting a government building in Serbia, Iraq, or other nations.
Based on observations of the policies of my own government, I viewed this action as an acceptable option.
There needs to be more pressure on the Mexican government to stop the drugs and illegal immigrants on their side of the border instead of exporting them to the U.S.
I've come to the conclusion that the government needs to impose price controls on tuition increases - and so, I think, has President Obama.
What people want is big government that they don't have to pay for.
An orthodox belief in big government's inefficiency cannot coexist with an orthodox belief in private industry's inability to compete with big government.
A thriving middle class is a necessary precondition for a free representative government.
In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to meet real-world needs is to leak it.
The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy.
Whenever the very rich hold views at odds with those of the entire population, the federal government tends to do the rich's bidding.
Loopy as the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings system is, it's better than what you'd probably get by putting such decisions in the federal government hands.
I recognize that Republicans see a moral difference between a dollar taken away from a millionaire in government benefits and a dollar taken away from a millionaire in taxes.
If the Pentagon truly confined itself to providing defense, then presumably we wouldn't need a whole separate government agency to provide 'Homeland Security.'
I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.
If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble.
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama.
Medicaid is essentially bankrupt, Medicare is essentially bankrupt, why the heck would we give the federal government another entitlement program to manage?
The reason that the unions and the other stakeholders have not cut a deal with the automakers is because they believe the federal government is going to bail them out.
We have a country that is $5 a gallon gas, $4 a gallon gas, we got unbearable unemployment and a federal government that is out of control. We have to take back this country and we've got to get off the sidelines and take it to President Obama.
