I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government by taking them all over the United States and giving them a correct idea of the customs life etc. of the pale faces so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.

The government's desire to expand global trade may be understandable but we mustn't give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals.

We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security.

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.

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

If marriage really is a sacred institution then why is the government controlling it especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation are one Security to possessors two facility to acquirers and three hope to all.

New York State is upside down and backwards high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now unfortunately it's a national disgrace. Sometimes the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.

It is through states that the American people get the job done every day often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.