According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax.

The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.

Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.

We must now view our problems as opportunities - historic opportunities to change the failed systems of the past and do what's right for our future.

Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.

If we are going to save this country, if we are going to reestablish that belief in God, it's up to us. If we don't do it, who will?

God looked down on this country because this country was founded on the rock and that rock was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And when the storms came and the rains came, the rock, it did not move. But over the last 15 or 20 years, something began to erode.