When you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.

What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.

Politically the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult which is that the size and scope of government and really the size and scope of politics in our lives has grown uncomfortable unwieldy intrusive and inefficient.

Do we believe that the goal of government is to promote equal opportunity for all Americans to make the most of their lives? Or do we now believe that government's role is to equalize the results of peoples lives?

Government proposes bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

A President needs political understanding to run the government but he may be elected without it.