Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work.

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.