It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But there is no alternative to the state.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

Money is power and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria you've got to be prepared as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan to become the government and I'm not sure any country either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else who's willing to take on that responsibility.

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals out of government offices into the media into the streets of countries.

A little group of willful men representing no opinion but their own have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

Our nation is too different too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.