The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

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

Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.

Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources.

The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it, America has become no better than any other country in the world.

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