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I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important aspect of our lives.

Open the way before the new government to prove that it is for serving the people.

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.

The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.

I am interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.

I do not want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I do not want to be controlled by the U.S.

Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

I believe the government of the United States should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause.

We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it did not.

I am against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it is not just government bureaucrats. I do not like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.

So it was sort of an odd time because I had been hired, but my paperwork hadn't gone through. So I worked as an intern during the government shutdown, as an intern, but I already had a job.

I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.

Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It is time to return to our Founders love for small government. More is not always better.

There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can not possibly all be served by government.

I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I am not a believer in laissez-faire.

Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it is not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.

Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.

You can not win with some people. If you are not in government, you are criticised for being not serious. If you are in government, you are criticised for wanting power. That is the Labour party's line of attack, and it is a bit ridiculous.

The Left regards the Constitution as defective and outmoded - in part because it impedes the government's ability to control institutions, like churches and families, which stand between the state and individuals.

If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government.