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Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

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

Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work.

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who have not had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they are losers.

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it is the government's role to provide everything.

You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.

In the inner city, there is a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I have gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.

We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility.

The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back.

Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.

I have got the greatest job in the world. There is no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It is a great challenge.

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

I did not do improv in college, I never performed, I did not do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.