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" We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens. "

Ted Cruz

Need

Privacy

Government

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" Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. "

" We need a president who is willing to uphold the law. "

" My purpose is to call on my colleagues, whether they're Republicans or Democrats, to get behind the agenda of trying to reform the government and make it work for the people rather than the other way around. "

" War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits. "

" If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government. "

" Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of probity in their working. Only a genuine partnership between the Government and its people can bring about positive change to create a just society. "

" The very first act of the Confederate Government was to send commissioners to Washington to make terms of peace, and to establish relations of amity between the two sections. "

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

Act

Peace

Two

" From my father's point of view, without a thought for self, a true patriot stands up against the stones of condemnation and speaks for those who are given no real voice in the halls of justice or the halls of government. "

" Censorship is advertising paid by the government. "

" What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended. "

Barack Obama

" It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you. "

" People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income. "

" I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to those whose interests in good government is less. "

" The Obama economy has led to the lowest labor force participation since 1978. "

" Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom. "

" I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. The one thing that's missing, but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash - a method whereby on the Internet you can transfer funds from A to B without A knowing B or B knowing A. "

" We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area. "

" In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative. "

" A government of, by, and for the people requires that people talk to people, that we can agree to disagree but do so in civility. If we let the politicians and those who report dictate our discourse, then our course will be dictated. "

" Government and other scientists have identified hundreds of chemicals that are linked to diseases in small concentrations and that are unregulated in drinking water or policed at limits that still pose serious risks. "

" Our politicians are stupid. And the Mexican government is much smarter, much sharper, much more cunning. And they send the bad ones over because they don't want to pay for them. They don't want to take care of them. Why should they when the stupid leaders of the United States will do it for them? "

" Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile. "

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Responsibility

Democracy

Government

" Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down. "

Robert Orben

Government

Politicians

" The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them. "

" Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government. "

" Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. "

" Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more. "

William Henry Harrison

Government

Wish

True

" I'm not cool enough to hang out with any rock stars. Jay-Z doesn't come over to my house. I don't hang out with Ted Nugent. "

" The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney. "

" It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten to murder Americans. "