“Big government is indeed big, and like another big creature, the sauro...” — George Will Quote

“Big government is indeed big, and like another big creature, the sauropod dinosaur, government has a primitive nervous system: The fact of an injury to the tail could take nearly a minute to be communicated to the sauropod brain.”

“Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.”

“Arizona's law makes what is already a federal offense - being in the country illegally - a state offense. Some critics seem not to understand Arizona's right to assert concurrent jurisdiction.”

“There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.”

“The euro currency both presupposes and promotes a fiction - that 'Europe' has somehow become, against the wishes of most Europeans, a political rather than a merely geographic expression.”

“Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.”

“Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.”

“Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.”

“It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.”

“Despite the enormous role that local government plays in our daily lives, the constitution makes not one mention of it.”

“The intelligence community is governed by the same legal and ethical standards as the rest of American government and society, but an operational imperative is here, too. An intelligence community charged with global responsibilities cannot be successful without diversity of thought, culture and language.”

“As director of CIA, I was responsible for everything done in the agency's name, and it didn't matter whether that was done by an agency employee, a government contractor, a liaison service on our behalf, or a source on our behalf.”