It's just too bad we can't have an epidemic of botulism.

It is the tendency of Government to grow, for practices and programs to become the nearest thing to eternal life we'll see on this earth.

Common sense told us that to preserve the peace, we'd have to become strong again after years of weakness and confusion. So, we rebuilt our defenses, and this New Year we toasted the new peacefulness around the globe. Not only have the superpowers actually begun to reduce their stockpiles of nuclear weapons...but the regional conflicts that rack the globe are also beginning to cease.

I oppose registration for the draft... because I believe the security of freedom can best be achieved by security through freedom.

Almost all the worlds' constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which We the People tell the government what it is allowed to do. We the People are free.

I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers... Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them for ourselves.

We in government should learn to look at our country with the eyes of the entrepreneur, seeing possibilities where others see only problems