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

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

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

'Hello my name is the Republican Party and I got a problem. I'm addicted to spending and big government.' I'd like one of them just to stand up and say that.

I pinch myself because of the understanding that I've been blessed with a real rare opportunity that few Americans ever get - to serve their government and their people at this level.

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

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.

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

While all other sciences have advanced that of government is at a standstill - little better understood little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

I spent my whole life in the private sector 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow we don't put Americans to work.