To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don't take more from the private sector and grow government with it. And that's exactly what Obama has in mind with this expiration of Bush tax cuts proposal of his.

The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.

My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims.

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.

Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.

That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.