The federal government does not trample in jackboots those with whom it does business. It wraps them in cotton batting and, when they express ingratitude, apologizes profusely.

Whenever the very rich hold views at odds with those of the entire population, the federal government tends to do the rich's bidding.

The only agency of the federal government with a more demoralized workforce than Homeland Security is the Small Business Administration, a notorious turkey farm that should have been abolished years ago.

Loopy as the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings system is, it's better than what you'd probably get by putting such decisions in the federal government hands.

I don't bow down to the federal government.

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