In the 2012 campaign, the president successfully transformed the most intense conservative positions into liabilities on immigration and the role of government. — John Dickerson Copy Share Image
The entire debate around a 'No Deal' Brexit assigns a vastly overstated importance to the role of government in daily life. — Steve Hilton Copy Share Image
There's room in the Republican Party for anyone who wants to be a part of the values that we espouse when it… — Michael Steele Copy Share Image
Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The country was founded on the principle that primary role of government is to protect property from the majority, and so it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Constitution limits the role of government. The Constitution enumerates the freedoms of the people and enforces those freedoms against government, making… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
You cannot be a party in stagnation. You have to have the constant reinvigoration of fresher ideas and the debate in terms… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
Solidarity and interdependence, a sense of worth, a pride and hope in the future: these are positive gains for those who believe… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
I worry very much that we're in a situation now where there doesn't appear to be any limitation whatsoever in terms of… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
I've said many times - I told William Buckley, I said, "You warped my mind and I never recovered from it." That… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
It has always been the role of government to help solve problems, including and especially health crises. Obesity is a health epidemic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are certain basic principles regarding the proper role of government. If principles are correct, then they can be applied to any… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
To save the banks from making losses that would wipe out their net worth, you'll have to get rid of Social Security.… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The Declaration [of Independence] was not a protest against government, but against the excess of government. It prescribed the proper role of… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
To reverse the trend and reduce the role of government in our lives, and thus alleviate the government deficit and inflation pressures,… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
“It was in the wake of these erosions of economic controls that intellectual challenges were then made to the role of government… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Globalization is the field on which some of our major societal conflicts—including those over basic values—play out. Among the most important of… — Joseph E. Stiglitz Copy Share Image
“Only if government fulfilled its responsibility by fostering a robust economy was it ressonable to hold individuals responsible for working hard and… — Cal Jillson Copy Share Image
It's a sense in Minnesota that we need to get back to common sense. We need to get back to taking sensible… — Pete Hegseth Copy Share Image
We have our differences since the beginning of America. It's a legitimate difference. What is the role of government, et cetera, federal,… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“In 1992, David Koch likened the brothers’ multipronged political strategy to that of venture capitalists with diversified portfolios. “My overall concept is… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Absent geopolitical crises, the role of government policy isn't as big as people think in the short run. In the immediate term,… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
Roosevelt's New Deal regulated business, protected social welfare and promoted national infrastructure on the principle that the role of government was not… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the nineteenth century in On Liberty.… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. The one… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe the only check on government power in real time is a free… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
There are skeptics who do not come to their view because they have a source of income from carbon polluters. I don't… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I had to sign the paper to shut down the government. It's terrible… [But] what the shutdown showed many, many people is… — Sylvia Mathews Burwell Copy Share Image
“MY THESIS, in simplest terms, is: Let anyone do anything he pleases, so long as it is peaceful; the role of government,… — Leonard E. Read Copy Share Image
We in the small developing countries are beginning to understand that our own citizens share a common fate requiring the active role… — Said Musa Copy Share Image
Because many of us make mistakes that can have bad consequences, some intellectuals believe that it is the role of government to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
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