Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.
You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.
American failures in Vietnam and Iraq suggest that it's not really possible to create and sustain a proxy government in a country far from our own borders.
Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?
Based on observations of the policies of my own government, I viewed this action as an acceptable option.
I believe that people who do not vote in this country have no right to complain about the government that we are now living under. By the same token, if you don't really vote in television, you're never going to have your way. Write a letter to the president of the network.
As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press.
It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
We are shrinking the size of the federal government as a percent of our economy from over 21 percent of the economy to 19 percent of the economy. At the same time, we're growing the private economy.
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
Even leaving aside government policy, whole industries are already making expensive changes around the perceived need to 'go green.' Al Gore and countless other prophets of global catastrophe are making megamillions pushing these expensive solutions. Schoolchildren around the globe are being frightened by tales of impending calamity.
I think the federal government should be doing only what the Constitution says it should be. We don't have authority under the federal Constitution to have a big federal criminal justice system.
We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.
Jesus was not this wimpy little guy who walked around munching sunflower seeds and saying nice things to people. The real Jesus of the Bible said, 'Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's.' That is: Obey the government.
We have an opportunity, but we have an obligation to senior citizens and to the younger people who are entering the workforce today to help ensure that they are going to be able to trust the government to have a workable program that benefits them as well.
On climate and clean energy, government sets the international framework, and the private sector uses that framework to do what it does best: innovate, create, and drive global progress.
Every effort needs to be made to try and offset the costs of Katrina and Rita by reductions in other government programs, especially those that are wasteful, duplicative and ineffective.
There is no question that we are in a period in which we are going to have to use those sources to fund about 35 million dollars a year that used to be paid for by the federal government.
Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.
In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States.
The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
Every time the U.S. government makes a low-cost loan to someone, it's investing in them.
You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.
I respect very much the role of the media in our society; I think they can be very, very helpful. They serve as a very useful check, sort of a watchdog over the actions of the government, and I respect that.
If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history.
Iraqis have held elections and have recently put together their government, all encouraging developments.
The happiness of society is the end of government.
Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
Almost any government activity can also be seen as taking property 'without just compensation.' The basic model of an unconstitutional 'taking' would be if the government threw you out of your house.
There are libertarian conservatives, fiscal conservatives, and social conservatives. I feel conservative in terms of limited government, individual responsibility, self-sufficiency - that sort of thing.
No company fails in communist China, because they're all partly owned by the government.
The government has convinced parents that at some point it's no longer their responsibility. And in fact, they force them, in many respects, to turn their children over to the public education system and wrest control from them and block them out of participation of that. That has to change or education will not improve in this country.
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
