The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development.

Fear is a powerful weapon. It can excite and motivate, and it can get people to yell and to scream. But fear has never created a job.

If I weren't doing the politics, I wouldn't be doing my job.

I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.

The Western media tends to place a lot of emphasis on official institutions in Ukraine such as its supreme court, the central election commission, and the parliament. In reality, the people of Ukraine now control their destiny.

I think if you open the door to government control of television, then you let in a host of questions about rights.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

We need to get out of the way of the small business owner - and big business owners - and allow them to do what government can only dream of doing: creating jobs and thereby creating wealth.