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Gary Johnson was a strong governor.
So government acts as a safeguard of our property.
[Donald Trump] would be chaos for the country, I think.
Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea.
Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.
Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.
Nobody can tell me that no changes are necessary in Washington.
There's no Walter Cronkite to give you the final word each evening.
The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites.
Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice.
Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.
The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.
I see a big difference between the Republican candidate and the Democratic candidate.
I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.
Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government.
I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.
There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy.
Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government.
I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone.
I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.
It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.
One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.
It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.
It's completely idiot proof." I told them they've got it all wrong. I want a machine that is "idiot friendly.
Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.
I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change.
We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody.
The best preparation for work is not thinking about work, talking about work, or studying for work: it is work.
I think the dignity of Congress and the dignity of the country demands something more than merely censure here.
I think Hillary Clinton deserves to have people vouch for her other than members of the Democratic National Committee.
Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.
Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.
Donald Trump behaving like a wild man. I mean, I just can`t imagine that people want a human tornado sitting in the oval office.
My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep.
In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.
[Donald Trump] just would not be in his element and I think he would wobble off course and I think the country just can't have that.
I think in the real world that's probably correct. That would give federal matching funds. It would mean no more ballot access woes.
I think it would be a threat [Donald's Trump presidency] to the conduct of our foreign policy and our position in the world at large.
I think Gary Johnson would be capable of being a good chief executive and yes a commander in chief - Aleppo to the contrary, notwithstanding.
I talk with Gary [Johnson] every other day, we're on different coasts usually but we keep in touch and - yeah, no I do not agree with that release.
We need a complete ban on soft money, which is sort of an enveloping problem, and a ceiling on the amount of money that can be spent on a given race.
Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year.
People aren't stupid. I mean, people remember in 1990, the unemployment rate was 10 percent. Now it's 4 _ percent. We've got 1/4 million jobs that we've created.
I've been at some pains to say that I fear for the country if Mr.[DonALD] Trump should be elected. I think it's a candidacy without any parallel that I can recall.
I mean that psychologically. I think [Donald Trump] showed in the debates when he encounters criticism or challenge he behaves the way a bully would. He just doesn't take it well.
I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well.
The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts.
I`m an old duck hunter. I like to go hunting where the ducks are. We`re looking for votes. I think maybe poaching some of those soft Donald Trump Republican votes would be the place to go.
If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability economic, political and social.
If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability _ economic, political and social.