Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.

No way no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems.

I don't have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses.

I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done.

Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done.

It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.

If you have a government that is elected they need to do the hard work - because if they don't they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.

Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people that we have a responsibility to find our common ground to seek it and to find it.

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea the belief that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.