Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time - more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness because it drives everything else.

The most troubling aspect of social policy towards the poor in late 20th century America is or how much it costs, but what it has bought.

We believe that human happiness requires freedom and that freedom requires limited government.

Give people plenty and security, and they will fall into spiritual torpor.

It was raining cats and dogs, and I fell in a poodle.

People need self-respect, but self-respect must be earned - it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned - and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.

When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do, ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the Europe syndrome.