The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

To Republicans I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.

As long as I don't write about the government religion politics and other institutions I am free to print anything.

We've got a first class leader at the moment. David Cameron is dealing with the issues that he was left by the last government very well indeed.

The universities have got a job here as well in making sure that people actually understand that we're open for university students coming into the U.K. There's a job here not just for the government I think there's a job for the universities as well to make sure that people know that we are open.

There's much more we can be doing in Parliament we could be giving more power back to people at local government level through local referendums.

I think for voters what matters is the values that drive the government.

For voters what matters is what government actually delivers for them.

We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought.

Unfortunately corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.