We may not always recognize it, but government plays a bigger role in our lives than any other single person or institution. We spend nearly half of our lives working to pay for it. Children spend more time in government schools than they do with their parents. Birth, death, marriage, every area of our lives feels the influence of government.

Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past.

Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.

It isn't possible to give government just a little control over the economy and our lives. Once we cede that power to government, it uses the power to take more from us. That's why every year the government controls more of our lives.

Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.

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

Give government the weapons to fight your enemy and it will use them against you.