Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

-- Henry Clay

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.

-- Cullen Hightower

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

I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.

-- Kay Bailey Hutchison

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

-- Milton Friedman

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

-- Cullen Hightower

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

-- Robert Half

Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.

-- Dirk Kempthorne

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

-- Winston Churchill

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

-- Henry Ward Beecher