I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.

Simple fairness dictates that government must not raise taxes on families struggling to pay their bills.

This is not to say that the government should confiscate from the "haves" and bestow upon the "have-nots", beyond the requirements of a compassionate welfare program to provide for those who cannot provide for themselves. Far from it. But it is to say that our duty is to foster a strong, vibrant wealth-producing economy which operates in such a way that new additions to wealth accrue to those who presently have little or no ownership stake in their country.

Almost all the worlds' constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which We the People tell the government what it is allowed to do. We the People are free.

Our problems are both acute and chronic, yet all we hear from those in positions of leadership are the same tired proposals for more government tinkering, more meddling and more control---all of which led us to this state in the first place... We must have the clarity of vision to see the difference between what is essential and what is merely desirable, and then the courage to bring our government back under control and make it acceptable to the people.

Why should the government subsidize intellectual curiosity?

This administration is totally colorblind.

Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating.

If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now.

I have come to the conclusion that the 22nd Amendment [limiting the presidency to two terms] was a mistake. Shouldn't the people have the right to vote for someone as many times as they want to vote for him?

I don't have too much time for fiction.

I was alarmed at my doctor's report: He said I was sound as a dollar.

I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service.

There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.

You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard.

Dreams became issues of East versus West. Hopes became political rhetoric. Progress became a search for power and domination. Somewhere the truth was lost that people don't make war, governments do.

Were not cutting the budget simply for the sake of sounder financial management. This is only a first step toward returning power to the states and communities, only a first step toward reordering the relationship between citizen and government.

The American taxing structure, the purpose of which was to serve the people, began instead to serve the insatiable appetite of government. If you will forgive me, you know someone has once likened government to a baby. It is an alimentary canal with an appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Government is not the answer to the problem - it IS the problem.

For three decades, we have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.

Every dollar the federal government does not take from us, every decision it does not make for us, will make our economy stronger, our lives more abundant, our future more free.

When government gets too big, freedom is lost. Government is supposed to be the servant. But when a government can tax the people with no limit or restraint on what the government can take, then the government has become the master.

We are going to put an end to the notion that the American taxpayer exists to fund the Federal Government.

Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats.