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.

Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.

I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

Candidly I believe most corporations actually don't mind big government.

Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are.

Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy it's our partner.

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

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.