I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all we encounter it every day.

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

I think people are confused about what the Tea Party is. I mean they were a broad cross-section of Americans who came together concerned about our debt and our spending. And they're interested in constitutional limited government. And so they're not one group of people. They're thousands of small groups all over the country.

When government disappears it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone other interests will take their place.

When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind they're more susceptible to go to war.

A world in which government is burdened by historic debt philanthropy has limited resources and the private sector is only interested in its own personal gain is simply unsustainable.

But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests.That we shouldn't be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence the morality the justice and the interest of the people themselves.

The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests and when not efficiently checked it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.

The diversity in the faculties of men from which the rights of property originate is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.