It's opportunity. It's opportunity not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.

By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms we will make our government simpler smaller and smarter.

You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.

The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations League of Nations. But it was the conservatives Republicans that stood up against him.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Democracy means government by the uneducated while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power not the increase of it.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.