FDR's New Deal and, after it, Republican President Dwight Eisenhower's similar Middle Way, used the government to regulate business, provide a basic social safety net, and promote infrastructure, like...

The 'Patriot Act,' 'Enhancing domestic security,' and 'Protect America' all sound great - until you realize that they're catch phrases for programs that contain roving wire taps without a warrant and...

I urge the Government to look carefully at scrapping the entire burden of regulation on micro-businesses with, say, three employees or fewer.

If you are being held back by some unnecessary government rule or process, we will provide an easy way for you to let us know. And whenever we can take action, we will do so quickly.

Government and businesses cannot function without enormous amounts of data, and many people have to have access to that data.

I want people to feel like they have access to Congress, that they have access to government.

Priorities have to be allocated by the government because they have a complete picture of the country's requirements. If priority is allocated to a manned space programme, I'm confident we can swing...

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.

The great challenge of the 21st century is to provide good standards of living for 7 billion people without depleting the earth's resources or running up massive levels of public debt. To achieve...

Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.

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

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own...

People's trust in their public institutions depends on their government getting results.

I think that all areas of the budget have to be scrubbed. Clearly the entitlement issues have to be reformed and that's an issue that's going to require I think some strong bipartisan cooperation and...

The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

When we got into office the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.

As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self - government.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks!

The Government's going to pass a bill regarding schools. Well I never. Interfering gang they are, as if a parent doesn't know what's best for her own child. I don't know, I don't know! We won't be...

Ideas are very important for the shaping of society. In fact, they are far more powerful than bombs or armies or guns. And this is because ideas are capable of spreading without limit. They are behind...

In fact, if law were restricted to protecting all persons, all liberties, and all properties; if law were nothing more than the organized combination of the individual's right to self-defense; if law...

I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.

Decades of corporate government deregulation and reduced funding of important government departments have the country well along the path to a lawless society.

The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.