The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having.

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

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.

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.

...there is simply nothing so important to a people and its government as how many of them there are, whether their number is growing or declining, how they are distributed as between different ages, sexes, and different social classes and racial and ethnic groups, and again, which way these numbers are moving.

In too many cases, if our Government had set out determined to destroy the family, it couldn't have done greater damage than some of what we see today.

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