In a very weak economy when you say 'cut government spending ' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.

Government workers often get a bad rap but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.

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.

I didn't do improv in college I never performed I didn't do theater either. I was in student government I was a history major.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

Every wise just and mild government by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure will always abound most in people as well as in commodities and riches.

I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation not even the most belligerent.

The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked like Brett Favre it just keeps coming back.

We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship upward mobility and individual responsibility.

In the inner city there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save invest innovate and work.

The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government Government should not support the people.

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people using their government as an instrument and a tool can do toward building the whole man which will mean a better society and a better world.

Under the doctrine of separation of powers the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.

But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

You know I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

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.

I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time.