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"Our ports are owned by local governments who are responsible for the ports. It is the Coast Guard and Customs that provide security. The federal government will never outsource our security."
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"I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything."

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

"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 found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office."

"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."

"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."

"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."

"A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."

"Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."

"There shall be no end to the government of God."
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"No one who knows my personal situation would think I am not sympathetic to the needs of the active forces."

"The death tax should be completely and permanently repealed now in order to make the Tax Code fairer and simpler and to eliminate the harmful drag this tax has on the economy."

"For this reason, it is essential that our Nation's rural transportation professionals be provided with the necessary tools and support to promote and showcase the value, benefits, and accomplishments of rural transportation planning and development."

"I pointed out on the floor last year, after Hurricane Katrina, we were very proud that one of our National Guard engineering battalions was called to Louisiana. And they did a magnificent job."

"My son is not wild about going back to Iraq, but he'd sure rather do that than sacrifice all that he and his fellow soldiers have accomplished by leaving too early and inviting chaos."

"We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches."

"America's workers face a battle for their jobs. They are the finest workers in the world. American workers grow, harvest, and mine some of the world's highest quality and most plentiful raw materials."

"The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations."

"The U.S. is looking to India as more then just a marketplace for our defense products, but as a technology, aerospace and strategic partner for our future endeavors."
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