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.

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.

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

The United States is at a critical juncture in time. Our government is riddled with historic debt and the limited resources of philanthropic and non-profit efforts cannot meet the scale of social challenges we face with necessary force.

I am often asked if when I was secretary I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.

There's never been a nation like the United States ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents principles that recognize that our rights come from God not from our government.

It was settled by the Constitution the laws and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States they are going to own it.

In the late 1990s some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror namely massive atrocities 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States millions of refugees tens of thousands of people killed hideous repression that's international terror and we can go on and on.

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.

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.

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

As a governor I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States they have not had one since Lincoln.

The main foundations of every state new states as well as ancient or composite ones are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms and where there are good arms good laws inevitably follow.

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.