The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.'

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

Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.

The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.

Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.

As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.

Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.

In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.

Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.

The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people.

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.

When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.