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You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives.

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.

In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.

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 is truly beginning to embrace the power of innovation for the people and by the people, the idea that if government collaborates openly with and unleashes the ingenuity of the public, it will get much more done, much faster and at much lower cost than if government acted alone.

The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.