Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.

No way no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems.

I don't have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses.

I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done.

Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done.

It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.

If you have a government that is elected they need to do the hard work - because if they don't they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.

Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people that we have a responsibility to find our common ground to seek it and to find it.

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea the belief that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.

If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it to take their money by force for your own needs then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you.

My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.

And on the other hand we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader.

So you can say 'Get Big Government out of here and don't tell me what to eat ' but when kids are going to school and they're being fed junk we're pretty much telling them what to eat and we're telling them junk is OK.

I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.

It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing.

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it but had the representation of democracy in it.

If somebody invented cigarettes today the government would not legalize them.

I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better and that's what I'm doing.

I don't know people who don't say boy the government is working better now.

I'm in politics. I'm in government so nothing surprises me.

The essential job of government is to facilitate not frustrate job development.

The Declaration of Independence says when government fails the people have the right to replace it. Well New York State government has failed and the people have the right indeed the people have the the people have the obligation to act.