The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.

The government can only be brought down because it alienates several parties in the House.

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature a type nowhere at present existing.

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.

I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.

Who can be against progress after all? But it's a fraudulent use of the word - because for the Progressive progress is marked not be how free you are but how much government can 'do' for you.

It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that we are often very passive about what happens when the government violates those rights.

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.

I pinch myself because of the understanding that I've been blessed with a real rare opportunity that few Americans ever get - to serve their government and their people at this level.

As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.

I can't really criticize the Tea Party people because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.

President Obama's reckless defense cuts that are hanging over our cloud hanging over the horizon could put almost 44 000 jobs at stake right here in Pennsylvania. we are not going to let that happen. You know why? Because No. 1 national defense is the first priority of the federal government.

I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.

I mean just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing I get an idea about city government and they come the way they come.

Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts because tax cuts give people more power and take away from the role of government.

The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems and if only we had no government we'd have no problems. I can tell you that contradicts evidence history and common sense.

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government.

We need a government alas because of the nature of humans.

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.

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking you would have no government.

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

Just in general any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated because then they couldn't control them as easily.