I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.
As President Bush has said on numerous occasions, it is the government's role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will attract capital.
Silicon Valley is constantly saying that the government is irrelevant and powerless. But that's because most people there have never seen it get serious.
If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?
There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.
The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing.
What the UN inspectors can do is demonstrate to the world, help the Iraqi government demonstrate to the world that the Iraqis are cooperatively disarming if that is in fact what the Iraqi government decides to do.
Just as playgrounds didn't even make the priority list of most of those responding to Katrina, they all too often slip off the radar of those building our schools, designing our neighborhoods, and drafting government budgets.
Our fumbling government's response since Beirut - during both Republican and Democratic administrations - has been to cut and run, or to flat ignore this growing threat, apparently hoping it would go away.
You can't get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.
I don't think that voters should be fixated on public policy. In a healthy republic, they wouldn't have to worry every waking hour about what their government is doing.
Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.
Come to find out, the Russians were never afraid of the Americans. They weren't raised with the terror that we were by our government. I was struck by how our government misled us for so many years.
The federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet, but the last thing this Congress should be doing is trying to stifle public debate online.
Just like families must live within their budgets, the Federal Government must live within its means. We have passed appropriations bills that have been fiscally responsible while recognizing our national priorities.
You know, when companies who have made a commitment and have legacy costs and all of a sudden want to walk away from that commitment and lay it on the federal government, that's a problem. It's a fiscal problem for us.
The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.
Some people say that watching pay freezes in the government is like watching water freeze. It expands.
I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.
Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
I am supposed to owe the government something like $100 million. I couldn't squeeze out a dime.
