What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs.
An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting.
The government shutdown, we all know that's a sham. I mean, are they really going to just go to the entire Army and Navy and say, 'You're fired.'
This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for. I don't know if this man is really taking care of America. This government has been shameful.
A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.
What is being talked about now is the probability of the Sharon government launching an attack against Lebanon to eliminate the resistance of Hezbollah by using the American war against Iraq. But, of course, in this case, we will certainly fight with all our strength.
In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.
I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government.
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
Saudi Arabia was, until just a few years ago, probably one of the most safe countries on earth. And now the paper is daily full of activities and shootouts between Islamists who supported Osama bin Laden and the government there.
In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
Asking the government to help you for short periods of time is different than asking the government to take care of you for the rest of your life.
The policies and laws executed by the grand mufti in Libya, the long-term agenda in the short-lived Morsi government in Egypt, and by ISIS in its ideal Islamist Ummah are incompatible with the Constitution, period.
Short of a space-alien invasion or an Oklahoma tornado, there is almost no problem that a democracy can tackle in a year. But that isn't why we have a government. We have a government to solve the problems that greedy, short-sighted businessmen like me can't.
New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. Make no mistake, Labour's economic policies were a national security liability.
State government's efforts to address climate change must include reduced consumption and other conservation measures as water shortages become the new normal.
Taxation is not charity. It is not voluntary. As we shrink the state and make government smaller, we will find that more and more people are able to take care of themselves.
The federal government is enormous; it never shrinks. And the interest is killing us.
The heavy hand of government and its rules are causing family businesses to shutter their doors.
Shutting down the government is not how you make government work.
