I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it.

Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself.

I hope the people on Wall Street will pay attention to the people on Main Street. If they do, they will see there is a rising tide of confidence in the future of America.

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.

What is important is that one strives to achieve a goal.

Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock.

Never let the things you can't do, stop you from doing what you can.