If marriage really is a sacred institution then why is the government controlling it especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation are one Security to possessors two facility to acquirers and three hope to all.

New York State is upside down and backwards high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now unfortunately it's a national disgrace. Sometimes the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.

It is through states that the American people get the job done every day often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.

Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.

The United States is at a critical juncture in time. Our government is riddled with historic debt and the limited resources of philanthropic and non-profit efforts cannot meet the scale of social challenges we face with necessary force.

I am often asked if when I was secretary I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.

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.

But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.

It was settled by the Constitution the laws and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States they are going to own it.

In the late 1990s some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror namely massive atrocities 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States millions of refugees tens of thousands of people killed hideous repression that's international terror and we can go on and on.

The Federal Government should be the last resort not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately by voluntary organizations or by local or state governments.

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But there is no alternative to the state.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

Money is power and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria you've got to be prepared as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan to become the government and I'm not sure any country either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else who's willing to take on that responsibility.

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals out of government offices into the media into the streets of countries.

A little group of willful men representing no opinion but their own have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

Our nation is too different too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.