The essence of good government is trust.

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

The UN could help the Iraqi government get on its feet and help the United States withdraw a bit more.

The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.

We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.

If you look at the fact that the best chance we have for a good economy is the private sector. The government cannot create jobs. If the government could create jobs, then Communism would have worked. But didn't work. So what we have to do is allow the private sector and the entrepreneurial spirit to lead us back to a job-filled recovery.

We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.

Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.

The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law.

I think we're probably more unified than ever before because we're in a battle for survival. Not only for survival as the Republican Party, but survival of the check and balance system in our government.

Literally every department of state government has gone through, or is in a period of, chaos. Not just fiscal chaos, but certainly as we saw in the Department of Children and Family Services and State Fair Agency and many of Walker's departments, there is absolute chaos.

There's no question that any of us who are doing an honest job in government could do a lot better in private industry. During the years I was practicing law as an individual, my salary was a great deal more than it is now.

He convinced me that if we're going to have honest government that you can't leave it up to the crooks and that honest people have to get involved in government. So I did. I got involved as a criminal prosecutor with the U. S. Justice Department.

Good ideas are the backbone of good government.

Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.