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.

A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.

Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government and that means making some tough choices tightening our belts.

The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don't invest their holding too much money. We haven't heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody's afraid of the government and there's no need soft peddling it it's the truth. It is the truth.

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

I've always been about less government.

The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.