Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government.

We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.

You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.

Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.

I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government.

The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.

It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution.

Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers only minor ones.

Also when you escape a Communist regime you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand liberty must contract.