One side of the American psyche wants smaller government lower taxes and more choices for individuals even if those choices increase risk. The other wants a strong social safety net to protect the weakest among us even if it costs more to minimize risk.

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens who assemble and administer the government in person.

By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms we will make our government simpler smaller and smarter.

If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government to protect liberty - not to run your personal life not to run the economy and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.

I'd rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open not closed. So yes my ego is big but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo good. If there is ferment so much the better. If there is restlessness I am pleased. Then let there be ideas and hard thought and hard work. If man feels small let man make himself bigger.

I am good but not an angel. I do sin but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough you can see the stars.

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone play a slide trombone plant a small tree good God now you're free.