American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.

I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.

When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.

Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.

Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.