The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.

Irresponsibility breeds irresponsibility. The finances of government are so central. You'd think that would be pretty obvious.

I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals?

When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are good men in jail.

Am I embarrassed to speak for a less than perfect democracy? Not one bit. Find me a better one. Do I suppose there are societies which are free of sin? No, I don't. Do I think ours is, on balance, incomparably the most hopeful set of human relations the world has? Yes, I do.

A responsible government does not triple the national debt in eight years.

I'm a Democrat, and there are an important group of things only the government can do. But let us be clear that for most of the world, what they most need is less government.