I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

I've always been about less government.

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.