A lot of the basic research that helped us figure out fracking came from the federal government.

This is an appropriate role for the federal government - to invest in basic research.

I don't bow down to the federal government.

It is time to cut out the mountains of waste and inefficiency and duplication in the federal government.

With the notion of marriage - an exclusive, emotional, binding 'til death do you part' tie - becoming more and more an exception to the rule given a rise in cohabitation and high rates of divorce, why should the federal government be telling adults who love one another that they cannot get married simply because they happen to be gay?

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.