I think serving your government is the greatest thing in the world.

And I always like to stress, it's not a quota, not a set-aside, it's not about race, it's about giving opportunities to demonstrate their abilities to do work with the Federal Government.

So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!

I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone.

Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away.

Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get America's students to study more science and math; parents must push and help their children to meet this goal.

Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.

It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption.

I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights.

Yeah, I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling.

Things are difficult enough about Iraq without the Federal Government suppressing the truth about Iraq.

South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.

NSF is the only federal agency with a proven track record of selecting education projects through a rigorous, careful and competitive process that draws on a wide variety of experts from outside government.

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.