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Whenever anybody gets involved in politics, its always exciting for me because we take for granted our freedoms and our abilities to effect change through political activism.

My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.

Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.

It's interesting to play a politician who gets stuff done.

Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.

Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today.

It's been interesting for me because when I served in government before, I served in the White House. This time, I ended up serving in an agency, and it just made me respect and admire how much happens and that happens every day with people who don't even know all the work that's going on.