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

The welfare state is an enemy of private property. The excessive taxation used to support the welfare state is extremely dangerous.

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 reason welfare is bad is not because it costs too much, nor because it "undermines the work ethic," but because it is intrinsically at odds with the way human beings come to live satisfying lives.

The government can back up its tastes and beliefs with the police power. That is why it cannot be permitted tastes and beliefs. Most emphatically, it cannot be permitted to define one group as being privileged over another group of people. It was wrong in the days of Jim Crow; it is wrong in the days of affirmative action.

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

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.