The seeds of today's runaway government were planted when it was decided that government should help those who can't help themselves. From that modest, compassionate beginning to today's out-of-control mega-state, there's a straight, unbroken line. Once the door was open, once it was settled that the government should help some people at the expense of others, there was no stopping it.

It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.

I have no temptation to vote, to campaign, to try and stop a candidate who promises new follies.

A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second.

The best thing we can do for family values is to repeal the income tax. Then families will have the resources they need to implement their own values - and not those of the politicians. With the income tax gone, families will no longer be forced to have two breadwinners by necessity. Children will be raised better, family values will predominate, and crime will diminish. If your local school indoctrinates your child with values that are alien to you, you'll have the money to buy a private education.

World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.