1.   Both presidents believed the famous phrase captured their vision of a compassionate government actively pursing programs and policies aimed at helping ordinary citizens.

2.   Compassionate government would protect the poor, old and unlucky.

3.   The gender gap is complicated, reflecting a female preference for the Democratic vision of a compassionate government over that of the GOP budget-driven approach.

4.   The verdict simply shifts the onus to individual patients or to compassionate state governments to obtain marijuana for medical purposes and test the limits of federal intransigence.

5.   Wheat insists there is something worthwhile left in Washington, that compassionate government can make the country better, safer, more fair.

6.   And finally, my government will be a compassionate government.

7.   I want my government to be a compassionate government.