I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.

There are a lot of good causes out there but they can't possibly all be served by government.

Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.

I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.

So it was sort of an odd time because I had been hired but my paperwork hadn't gone through. So I worked as an intern during the government shutdown as an intern but I already had a job.

I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.

We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked but it didn't.

I believe the government of the United States should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause.

Acquire a government over your ideas that they may come down when they are called and depart when they are bidden.

I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be controlled by the U.S.