The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

The only thing we learn from history, I am afraid, is that we do not learn from history.

We're being taxed to blow up bridges in Iraq and rebuild them, while ours at home are falling down

The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in the cupboard.

Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts.

If you drink too much, you go out and you harm to somebody, you have to suffer the consequences. Same way with health matters. You don't have the right to demand that someone else take care of you because of your habits.

If people won't spend any money, the government has this moral obligation to do it.