He said the government should not pick the technology, but only offer companies financial incentives to work on the problem.

As economic conditions get tougher, the government will pick on those who are weakest.

There are so many schools, but the government picks just one.

We have wrecked the competitive system of free market for decades when the government picked winners and losers.

The federal government should no longer pick and choose which legal marriages to recognize.

Second, you'd be in a situation when the government is picking stocks, choosing one company over the other, with the potential for political influence-peddling.

And that's an academic term for letting the government pick economic winners and losers.

As a result the government can concentrate its resources and pick us off one by one.

Why have the government picked this fight with the unions and public sector workers?

"We just don't think at this point that the government should pick winners and losers."