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.
You better believe that I want to build a Christian nation, because the only option is a pagan nation. Not that the government can make someone a Christian by decree. A Christian nation would be defined as We acknowledge God in our body politic, in our communities, that the God of the Bible is our God, and, we acknowledge that His law is supreme.
The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral.
If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code.
The Bible is the supreme law that all governments must obey.
If the government of this country tramples the faith and values of its citizens, history will hold those in power responsible for the violent convulsions that follow.
Let all those in government be warned: They cannot order people to pay for the murder of babies, and betray God Himself, without horrific consequences.
The special harm attaching to prior restraint is that the government can keep materials from reaching the public, so there can be no accountability, no judgment by the people that the power to suppress was wrongly exercised.
To put everyone in government housing and food stamps and bring them in from around the world I think is a mistake. To give of your own money, I've given to my church. My church has helped people that came from Bosnia. That's a good thing.
When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on [gay] marriage, that's when it's time to resist.
I would prefer the [USA] government to be the policeman and not the businessman.
The other thing to realize is that almost all these shootings, including this shooting [in San-Bernardino], happened in a government building where people are not allowed to defend themselves. While it's not the ultimate answer, the ultimate answer would be no violence, part of the answer is saying, "We need to allow people to defend themselves."
I think we have a Tea Party mandate, and that Tea Party mandate is for good-government type of things, things like term limits, things like a balanced budget amendment, things like read the bills for goodness sakes, things like that maybe Congress should only pass legislation that they apply to themselves as well.
I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator.
What is immoral for an individual to do, is immoral for a government to do
Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?
I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
Perhaps it is time to be more careful what we ask government to do, and where we allow it to become part of our lives.
I went to my first national convention in 1976, when my family supported [Ronald] Reagan over [Gerald] Ford, so we've always been Republicans, but we've always wanted the Republican Party to be the party of fiscally conservative, limited-government types. And I think, sometimes, we haven't done that as well.
Because Republicans believe that the federal government is limited in its function-some have concluded that Republicans are somehow inherently insensitive to minority rights. Nothing could be further from the truth.
It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.
You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.
I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.
I'll do anything to try to prevent John Bolton from getting any position, because I think his world view is naive. He believes we're going to spread democracy. We're going to topple governments everywhere and they're going to elect Thomas Jefferson. That's not the way it works in the Middle East.
You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.
