I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.

But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people.

Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work.

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.