Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

In the rush to become all things to all people the federal government has lost sight of its core responsibilities. As a result we're stuck in this frustrating paradox where Washington actually neglects things it's clearly supposed to be doing while interfering in other areas where they are neither welcome nor authorized.

Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My parents and immigrants like them were known as '£10 poms.' Back then the Australian government was trying to get educated British people and Canadians - to be honest educated white people - to come and live in Australia.

People should be free people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.

Surely the President can agree with us that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.

It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.

We tried to have diplomas without learning we tried to have jobs without work we tried to have houses without savings we tried to have government without responsibility.

I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial that would not really cost the government a lot of money.

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.

Communism is a hateful thing and a menace to peace and organized government.

World War II was the last government program that really worked.

Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government one of the richest on Earth is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

Unfortunately President Obama's failed policies of new regulations higher taxes and Obamacare and his anti-business rhetoric have hit Hispanics especially hard. Big government really hurts those who are trying to make it.

You know that big government doesn't hurt big corporations. They've got the best lawyers and accountants in the world. You know who gets destroyed by big government? It's the little guys.

The problem is that when government controls the economy those who can influence government keep winning and everybody else just stays the same.

There's never been a nation like the United States ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents principles that recognize that our rights come from God not from our government.

Government is dysfunctional.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.

When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.

Government is essentially immoral.

As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement your financial security for anything. If you do you're screwed.