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

I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions.

One side of the American psyche wants smaller government lower taxes and more choices for individuals even if those choices increase risk. The other wants a strong social safety net to protect the weakest among us even if it costs more to minimize risk.

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

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.

In government you carry each hope each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.

I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.

We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government.

Government shouldn't tell you whom to marry.

Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?

The public is upset. If they haven't lost their job they know somebody that has. If they haven't lost their house they know somebody that has. What do you do? When something's wrong it's government's job to fix it it must be government that's responsible for causing it.

A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.

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

Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government and that means making some tough choices tightening our belts.

The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don't invest their holding too much money. We haven't heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody's afraid of the government and there's no need soft peddling it it's the truth. It is the truth.

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

I've always been about less government.

The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.

I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.

The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.

We are watching industries crumble Wall Street firms disappear unemployment spike and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's or Abraham Lincoln's?

By the time Obama came into office Washington had already agreed over a period of a few weeks to a $700 billion government infusion into the world banking system. Nothing of the sort had ever been done before and it was done spit spot with very little national debate.

The thing is Obama is right that it would be a calamity for the government to default on its debt by not meeting its obligations. Such a thing has never happened and can't be allowed to happen.