America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens.

We're one of the most highly regulated industries, and we have to pay attention to what government is doing.

Secondly, the Government of Sudan should commit to the disarmament and control of the Janjaweed militia and ensure that the targeting of civilians ceases immediately.

My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.

When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group.

The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.

No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.

The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.

As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.

Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away.

What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have a free press without a government than a government without a free press.