I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions.

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.

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature a type nowhere at present existing.

In government you carry each hope each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.

I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.

We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government.

Government shouldn't tell you whom to marry.

Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?

The public is upset. If they haven't lost their job they know somebody that has. If they haven't lost their house they know somebody that has. What do you do? When something's wrong it's government's job to fix it it must be government that's responsible for causing it.