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Many Americans, we know, are horrified by the posture of their government but seem to be helpless.

My goal in life is to get the federal government down to half its present size and under control, and then I can write murder mysteries.

The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.

Smaller government, more individual responsibility, more individual control creates more Republicans. More state power and ownership and control and top-down decision-making creates more Democrats.

Someday I hope Americans will not believe that anyone had to spend his or her days fighting for limited government because everyone they know wants maximum freedom and minimum statism.

There are 100 different doors to come into the conservative movement. You can disagree with 99 of them, as long as you agree on one: more-limited government.

The central issue of our time - of all times - is the size, power and scope of government.

Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does those things, it is facilitating liberty. When it goes beyond those things, it becomes destructive to both human happiness and human liberty.

Most Republicans have made it very clear they're not interested in raising taxes. They want to reform government.

The Democratic Party is made up of trial lawyers, labor unions, government employees, big city political machines, the coercive utopians, the radical environmentalists, feminists, and others who want to restructure society with tax dollars and government fiat.

The federal government is enormous; it never shrinks. And the interest is killing us.

When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's government fell in May 1940, the nation turned to Churchill. At last, his unique qualities were brought to bear on a supreme challenge, and with his unshakable optimism, his heroic vision, and above all, his splendid speeches, Churchill roused the spirit of the British people.

To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.

Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.

There is nothing more fundamental than the idea that the government does not have a right to decide when and whether we have children.

Things don't always go according to plan. That's life and that's government.

Look, ideally I'd like to have free money to give to everybody. The reality is in government you have to choose and make decisions.

The more the government has centralised, the less houses we have built.

No government can maintain the public's confidence if it is outwardly split.

We share no data with the government anywhere in the world.

The best way of realising our high ideals is to show that we have an alternative in government that is credible, that is radical, and is electable - is neither a pale imitation of what the Tories offer nor is it the route to being a party of permanent protest rather than a party of government.