I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above all else, observe the first maxim of good government: namely, do no avoidable harm.
President Obama likes to talk about winning the future. But someone needs to tell him: You can’t win the prosperity of tomorrow if you’re mortgaging it to pay for the big government programs of today.
It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it’s an irresponsible government that fails to choose.
But that the people are stronger than the government, and will resist in extreme cases, our governments would be little or nothing else than organized systems of plunder and oppression.
I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn’t supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.
I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That’s why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.
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.
Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started.
Truth is the glue that holds government together.
The role of government is to tax the people to the least extent possible while still taxing them enough to cover the basic needs for government.
Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.
There is only one kind of freedom and that’s individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.
Years of government inaction on air pollution has got people thinking that the state cannot even protect basic public goods like clean air.
The government would be making decisions about what type of care is given, what procedures can be performed, and the kind of medications prescribed. It would be a very profound change from the ideal to which we aspire.
Let’s make it simple: Government control means uniformity, regulation, fees, inspection, and yes, compliance.
Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.
My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I’m killing somebody.
If you establish a right unity government, you create an effective platform to make… decisions because you have wider support of your own party.
Good government is good politics.
The people in Washington are getting rich with our money. Under President Barack Obama, the federal government swelled to record size, and it took more and more of our money to pay for it. Who benefitted? Not Missouri farmers or workers.
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
You’ve got to have free markets with limited government, with the proper amount of regulation where you don’t jam entrepreneurship.
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during the period of slavery but also in the Jim Crow era that followed.
