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" The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power. "

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" In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will be determined by the government that has been responsible for doing everything in its power to destroy Native American cultures. "

Winona LaDuke

American

Power

Integrity

" The bottom line is there are lots of problems that were not created by government. The biggest one is loss of middle class incomes, loss of good-paying jobs which was created by technology and globalization. Above all, when you can move a job to China or India, it reduces wages. "

" The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government. "

" I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to the U.S. government that I merited citizenship. "

Bharati Mukherjee

Citizenship

Government

" I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. "

" The idea that more taxes and more government spending is the best way to help hardworking middle class taxpayers - that's an old idea that's failed every time it's been tried. "

" If you want a president to stop amnesty, to secure the borders and keep us safe, then support a candidate who has led the fight to stop amnesty to secure the borders and to keep us safe. "

" During intervals of humanity, some disposition has been manifested to permit the return of those who have never offended, who have been banished by a terror which the government itself has reprobated, & to permit in case of arrestation, an investigation of the fact of emigration as well as of the identity of the person accus'd. "

" Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue. "

" Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them. "

" I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate. "

" We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another. "

" When you are in local government, you are on the ground, and you are looking into the eyes and hearts of the people you are there to serve. It teaches you to listen; it teaches you to be expansive in the people with whom you talk to, and I think that that engagement gives you political judgment. "

" One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it. "

" Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government. "

" I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world. "

" Washington is a bubble, and there is nothing more powerful than the conservative grassroots when we are engaged and letting our voice be heard. "

" While I am a fervent believer in free markets and limited government, there are rare instances in which government involvement is necessary. "

" The U.S. Constitution protects our privacy from the prying eyes of government. It does not, however, protect us from the prying eyes of companies and corporations. "

" Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better. "

" The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people. "

" The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians. "

" Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. "

" I tend to listen to country music more than Cuban music. "

Ted Cruz

Music

Country

" I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government. "

" After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared. "

" Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. "

" Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government. "

Milton Friedman

Want

Government

" I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving. "

" Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them. "