For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers only minor ones.

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.

Every government must consider the security of the country. That is just part of the responsibilities of any government. But true security can only come out of unity within a country where there are so many ethnic nationalities.

Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government our economy and our country.

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States they are going to own it.

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government ' I says 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.

Every country has the government it deserves.

We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.

Barack Obama's enemies are the people who make this country work. Barack Obama's enemies are those who succeed. Those are the people whose income he wants to redistribute. Those are the people whose income he wants to take using the power and the force of the federal government to do it.

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out.

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria you've got to be prepared as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan to become the government and I'm not sure any country either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else who's willing to take on that responsibility.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Things in our country run in spite of government not by aid of it.

When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.