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.

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.

Government is a parasite-a cancer that by nature tries to spread deeper into society. Those who want to run others' lives won't give up and start minding their own business.

I'm sorry that I can't snap my fingers and undo 50 years of bad American foreign policy.

Government doesn't work. You work, I work, Federal Express works, Microsoft works, the Salvation Army works, Alcoholics Anonymous works, but government doesn't.

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.

If a law could keep dangerous weapons out of the hands of dangerous people, there would be virtually no gun crime at all.