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We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City. The application of this concept to the financial sector could solve our need for revenue, bring some sanity back into the financial sector, and give us a way to raise the revenue we need to run the government in a fiscally responsible way.

Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government.

The reality of split government puts a premium on creativity within the administration. President Obama needs to put the right people in charge of the agencies and then have them push the bounds of administrative power to change policy through those agencies. President Obama has a pretty good track record of this.

You can not have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government.

As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable.

A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.

I am not driven to get back into politics. It is not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I have been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.

I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it is your money. You paid for it.

A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.

Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.

We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.

We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States.

Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people do not trust their government anymore, and demand a change?

And I just think that we are at a point in our economic life here in our state - and - and, candidly, across the country, where increased taxes is just the wrong way to go. The people of our state are not convinced that state government, county government, local government has done all they can with the money we already give them, rather than the money that we have before.

Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That is what I was committed to doing.

Now, in New Jersey, we have more government workers per square mile than any state in America. But since I have been governor we now have fewer people on the state payroll at any time since Christie Whitman left office in January 2001. That is the right direction, Mr. President, not the wrong direction.

Attending that Convention and talking with those people and many others convinced me that I should become a blogger in my efforts to reform the government and uphold the integrity of the Constitution and the laws made in furtherance thereof.