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• ‟ Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.

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• ‟ Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government.

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• ‟ So government acts as a safeguard of our property.

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• ‟ Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice.

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• ‟ One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.

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• ‟ Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.

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• ‟ In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.

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• ‟ The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.

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• ‟ I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.

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• ‟ It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.

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• ‟ Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.

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• ‟ I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.

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• ‟ It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.

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• ‟ Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government.

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