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

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

I don't bow down to the federal government.

We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care.

Not only is it possible to do lean startup in federal government, but it's the most effective way to drive change in the federal government.

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