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Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

Lives that are so conspicuous have a claustrophobic feeling. Once you're in charge of running a country, you're under scrutiny all the time. That's a trap.

It's a very tough thing to run for office, but it's also the way the American people get to know you.

Governments are run by people. People can be bad.

America is not just a country, it's an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.

Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By and large, they're trying to do it as well as they can. Or at least as often as people in the private sector try to do as well as they can.

Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.

We have a spending problem, not a taxing problem. The less we spend, the more jobs we have the potential to create.

Who in the world wants to run a country where the new norm is one where there are no jobs?

An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.