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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.

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

I am in politics. I am in government, so nothing surprises me.

I do not know people who do not say, boy the government is working better now.

I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that is what I am doing.

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

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.

It is dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing.

I almost forgot what it is like to be proud of my government.

So you can say, Get Big Government out of here, and do not tell me what to eat, but when kids are going to school, and they are being fed junk, we are pretty much telling them what to eat, and we are telling them junk is OK.

And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader.

We are adults. We are the ones who should teach the kids what's good to eat. I do not think the government should ever regulate what we eat at home, but we are feeding them in school with tax dollars. Quite frankly, if my tax dollars are being spent to feed kids, I do rather feed them better food.

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.

My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America I just do not like some of the things the government is doing.

If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you.

We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.

If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they do not, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.

It is not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.