Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people of the people and for the people.

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage and he expects your absolute loyalty.

A government of laws and not of men.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

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.

To establish any mode to abolish war however advantageous it might be to Nations would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

In our civilization and under our republican form of government intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

All government indeed every human benefit and enjoyment every virtue and every prudent act is founded on compromise and barter.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

In other words a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s before we had any government. It worked rather well and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes bigger government and less trade with other nations.

On one of the most personal matters of our lives our health care President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it.

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.

I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back to 20 percent or lower. And say we are not going to spend above that level. Democrats they want to raise your taxes and spend more and more and turn us into an economy which is no longer driven by the private sector.

The answer for healthcare is market incentives not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

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.