The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.

Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.

Never say anything that, down inside, you think is wrong.

It would be a good time to replace the drug war with something more constructive. The cure offered the drug war today has probably been more harmful and done more damage than the disease.

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.

When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps dramatically. Girls and boys get to the classroom with the promise of a good meal once a day.