The purpose of Bonn was to re-establish permanent government institutions; the purpose of the compact is to make them work for the Afghan people.

The purpose of Sunshine Week is twofold: one, to make clear the extent big government has been curtailing the flow of information and news to the public, and two, to let people know ways to deal with this type of government behavior.

When you get to that size, that's where government really does have a purpose, have a role. We have regulations, but I just don't believe they're tight enough right now.

The sole purpose of that statement was to make the American people believe that our government believed it. But the truth was that our intelligence agencies did not believe it,

The government may intend the non-disclosure provision to serve some purpose other than the suppression of speech, ... Nevertheless, it has the practical effect of silencing individuals with a constitutionally protected interest in speech and whose voices are particularly important in an ongoing national debate about the intrusion of governmental authority into individual lives.

She was patrolling the forest enforcing the no-fire ban. She got out of her government vehicle with the purpose or the intent of starting a fire.