The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil that there must be opposition between its various branches and between political parties for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.
There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.
Power without principle is barren but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government and I will lead it as a party of government.
What the world needs is a small compact flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power at a price that nobody except a government can afford.
It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.
Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.
This administration in Washington that's in power now clearly believes that government is not only the answer to every need but it's the most qualified to make the most central decisions for every American in every area.
Every American regardless of their background has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.
There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money power and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.
But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests.That we shouldn't be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us.
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.
Under the doctrine of separation of powers the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.
The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts because tax cuts give people more power and take away from the role of government.
The control of information is something the elite always does particularly in a despotic form of government. Information knowledge is power. If you can control information you can control people.
Barack Obama's enemies are the people who make this country work. Barack Obama's enemies are those who succeed. Those are the people whose income he wants to redistribute. Those are the people whose income he wants to take using the power and the force of the federal government to do it.
No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.
Well first of all I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is they believe that for years and years and years the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.
The essence of Government is power and power lodged as it must be in human hands will ever be liable to abuse.
Money is power and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
The people are the only legitimate fountain of power and it is from them that the constitutional charter under which the several branches of government hold their power is derived.
Politically the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.