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.

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.

If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.

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

Secrecy is for losers.

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

No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty.