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

The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth.

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.

It has proved politically wiser to set goals than to start programs.

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.

The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults.

The nature of the new world system was not so different from the old. It was for the moment more stable, but a reasonable forecast would be that Africa in particular had a century of border wars ahead of it.