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Fear is the foundation of most governments.

I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.

People are afraid of an unorganized, wasteful government.

If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.

We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.

I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope. Of despair and of achievement. I have seen our government at its best, but today I fear that we see our government at its worst.

Governments sometimes turn paranoid. And they fear things. And sometimes the thing they fear the most is the populace.

I actually don't believe in big government, and half the time I'm never quite sure I believe in government, generally.

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