Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting from their success - only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, prosperous, progressive and free.

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

My basic rule is that I want people who don't want a job in government.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.

The founders of the United Nations expected that member nations would behave and vote as individuals after they had weighed the merits of an issue - rather like a great, global town meeting. The emergence of blocks and the polarization of the United Nations undermine all that this organization initially valued.

To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors.