Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.
I know it may be hard to imagine given how broken and gridlocked our politics truly are, but from the White House to, yes, Congress, the government is filled with hard-working, idealistic public servants working incredibly hard on tough issues, trying to make people's lives better and move the country, and our world, forward.
It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.
In order to maintain public trust in government, elected officials must answer for what they do and say; this includes 140-character tweets.
The real cost of corruption in government, whether it is local, state, or federal, is a loss of the public trust.
My first goal as governor is to restore public trust in state government by changing the culture of state government.
Public trust in both government and corporations is low, and deservedly so.
I had a lot of space as a kid. My mother worked with human rights for the government, and my dad had a book publishing company, but they weren't really musical.
For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature of things. It is as absurd as it would be to declare truth to be falsehood, or falsehood truth.
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars.
Beyond the barricades we long to see a Hong Kong free from tyranny and a puppet government.
Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight.
I think its rather peculiar. It's not in keeping with our founding documents, our founding vision. But I'd guess you'd have to ask the Obama administration why they purged all this language from their platform. There sure is a lot of mention of government, so I guess I would put the onus on them to answer why they did all these purges of God.
We have a government that purposely counterfeits and debases the currencies, and I believe that the alternative would be a competition. That means that anything that wants to substitute for the American dollar should be permitted.
It's not easy for the average family to ensure that their child receives a quality education. And the federal government is not making it any easier.
When the federal government invests in education, it should support quality education and career readiness rather than institutions that make empty promises.
Some may remember that, in 2010, I publicly broke ranks with my colleagues from the Quebec City area who were pushing our government to subsidize a new sports amphitheater in the city. They had seized on this popular project to... What else? Buy votes.
The people of Montana understand that you will never be able to take enough money from them and give it to the government to quench that thirst. The government will always spend more money.
I've had quite a long time in government, and I've learned a few things.
