For a generation and more, the government has sought to meet our needs by multiplying its bureaucracy. Washington has taken too much in taxes from Main Street, and Main Street has received too little in return. It is not necessary to centralize power in order to solve our problems.

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

It's nice not to have to worry about constituents.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

At least I have precluded the possibility of peaking too early.

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.