I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.
I think people are confused about what the Tea Party is. I mean they were a broad cross-section of Americans who came together concerned about our debt and our spending. And they're interested in constitutional limited government. And so they're not one group of people. They're thousands of small groups all over the country.
It's counterintuitive but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority.
There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran with its fundamentalist Islamic extremist government possessing nuclear weapons.
And I just think that we're at a point in our economic life here in our state - and - and candidly across the country where increased taxes is just the wrong way to go. The people of our state are not convinced that state government county government local government has done all they can with the money we already give them rather than the money that we have before.
My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country the supremacy of the Federal government an honorable peace or none at all.
Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.
If you seek Hamilton's monument look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson but live in Hamilton's country a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.
We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians.
Populism is not a style it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy government media and environment.
This is a country for of and by the people not for of and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they're doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers only minor ones.
We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online putting legislation online.
Well you know I - again even in the context of BP I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.
I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.
Every government must consider the security of the country. That is just part of the responsibilities of any government. But true security can only come out of unity within a country where there are so many ethnic nationalities.
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government our economy and our country.
The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.
You know that big government doesn't hurt big corporations. They've got the best lawyers and accountants in the world. You know who gets destroyed by big government? It's the little guys.
If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States they are going to own it.
Say what you like about my bloody murderous government ' I says 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
Every country has the government it deserves.
We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.