We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.

I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.

You can have a revolution wherever you like except in a government office even were the world to come to an end you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers always on trial for their political lives always required to court their restless constituents.

Now in New Jersey we have more government workers per square mile than any state in America. But since I've been governor we now have fewer people on the state payroll at any time since Christie Whitman left office in January 2001. That's the right direction Mr. President not the wrong direction.

I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100 000 elevator.

By the time Obama came into office Washington had already agreed over a period of a few weeks to a $700 billion government infusion into the world banking system. Nothing of the sort had ever been done before and it was done spit spot with very little national debate.

Conservatives are winning offices and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now.

The office of government is not to confer happiness but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.