If somebody invented cigarettes today the government would not legalize them.

I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better and that's what I'm doing.

I don't know people who don't say boy the government is working better now.

I'm in politics. I'm in government so nothing surprises me.

The essential job of government is to facilitate not frustrate job development.

The Declaration of Independence says when government fails the people have the right to replace it. Well New York State government has failed and the people have the right indeed the people have the the people have the obligation to act.

My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy and the people are at peace and the government has done something for them that's the greatest reward I think any government could hope for.

If I was afraid of being killed I would never speak out against the government.

Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.

Government does not have a revenue problem government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem government has a priority problem. It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be.

All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.

One of the essential elements of government responsibility is to communicate effectively to the American people especially in time of a potential terrorist attack or a natural disaster.

This Bible is for the government of the people by the people and for the people.

And some of what we're doing in Government even now some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.

The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

To Republicans I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.

As long as I don't write about the government religion politics and other institutions I am free to print anything.