No longer must government be allowed to ride roughshod, absorbing the people's wealth, usurping their rights, and crushing their spirit.

There was a time when "sound as a dollar" was a description, not a joke.

Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.

You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday's impossibilities the commonplace realities of today.

If we've learned any lessons during the past few decades, perhaps the most important is that preservation of our environment is not a partisan challenge; it's common sense. Our physical health, our social happiness, and our economic well-being will be sustained only by all of us working in partnership as thoughtful, effective stewards of our natural resources.

I'm just a citizen temporarily in public service.

If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.