Since when do we in America believe that our society is made up of two diametrically opposed classes - one rich, one poor - both in a permanent state of conflict and neither able to get ahead except at the expense of the other? Since when do we in America accept this alien and discredited theory of social and class warfare? Since when do we in America endorse the politics of envy and division?

If you owe the bank $10,000 you have a problem. If you owe the bank $10,000,000 they have a problem. After all is said and done, more is said than done. Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

For too long, too many people dependent on Social Security have been cruelly frightened by individuals seeking political gain through demagoguery and outright falsehood, and this must stop.

If you put it on the table as a bargaining chip, it becomes a bargaining chip

It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.