My heart does sometimes bleed for those who are hurting in my own country and abroad.

When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.

A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.

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

When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.

And above all, above all, honest work must be rewarded by a fair and just tax system. The tax system today does not reward hard work: it penalizes it. Inherited or invested wealth frequently multiplies itself while paying no taxes at all. But wages on the assembly line or in farming the land, these hard-earned dollars are taxed to the very last penny.

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.