. . . I hope that when you're my age, you'll be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom, we lived lives that were a statement, not an apology.

I sometimes think Adam and Eve were Russians. They didn't have a roof over their head, nothing to wear, but they had one apple between them and they thought that was Paradise.

When cruelty is inflicted on innocent people, it discredits whatever cause.

All systems are capitalist. It's just a matter of who owns and controls the capital -- ancient king, dictator, or private individual. We should properly be looking at the contrast between a free market system where individuals have the right to live like kings if they have the ability to earn that right and government control of the market system such as we find today in socialist nations.

I was raised to believe that God has a plan for everyone and that seemingly random twists of fate are all a part of His plan.

I have decided that whatever time I may have left is left for Him.

When you start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' you have been in office too long.