Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.

I don't bow down to the federal government.

The president is doing the right thing to assure people that the federal government is much better prepared for Rita than it was for Katrina.

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

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

What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs.