If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.