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I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

The only way to make government more efficient is to make it smaller and to make it more local.

Government on its own is always inefficient.

I see the government operating the way the founders intended.

I think that citizens should be skeptical of government power. But I fear it's bled over to cynicism. It is something that is getting in the way of reasoned discussion, and I'm very concerned about how to change that trend of cynicism.

I believe that the federal government has significant constitutional powers, but I don't think it's effective to impose pipelines on communities.

Well, the federal government has a responsibility to provide leadership in bringing together provinces.

We're going to fight a Conservative government, we're going to fight it all the way. We're ready to do whatever it takes.

It's the exact opposite of my job to take what the government says at face value and say, 'This is the truth because the government says it, and the government never lies.'

My job is to be skeptical: skeptical of people like Edward Snowden and skeptical of the U.S. government.

My job is to not take for granted when somebody says, 'Oh, this is all just a made-up, phony scandal,' or, 'What this person did put the U.S. government at risk.'

I choose to make it my job to not automatically believe what the U.S. government says.

Founded in rebellion against colonial tyranny, our country is naturally suspicious of government intrusion, interference, and snooping. European systems, by comparison, grow out of a tradition of the state providing social benefits for workers that stretches back to Bismarck and Germany in the 1880s.

Paternalism is the method of government activism most amenable to an impoverished public sector.

Freedom rests on a rational distrust of government; government will always use its power to benefit the incumbent administration.

I happen to be a conservative, but one need not accept the Right's theories wholesale to acknowledge the sometimes negative effects of government action on health care.

We'll rail against the way the government has destroyed our health care market in one breath and resist the support offered to the poor and middle class to navigate this brokenness with the other. This is not conservative; it is incoherence masquerading as ideological purity.

I could never understand why our lives felt like a struggle while those living off government largesse enjoyed trinkets that I only dreamed about.

China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.

I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.