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

I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me.

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.

I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.

I was not born into a rich family or a family of government officials.

I've always been about less government.

There have been two periods in my lifetime when the excitement of government and of public issues drew to Washington many of the bright young people graduating from colleges and law schools. These were essentially the Roosevelt and the Kennedy years.

I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to go bankrupt. I happened to write some jokes about it. I did real well for myself.