When government gets too big, freedom is lost. Government is supposed to be the servant. But when a government can tax the people with no limit or restraint on what the government can take, then the government has become the master.

We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry each night. Well that was probably true. They were all on a diet.

Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy.

In case anybody asks you about my position on capital punishment, you can tell them I favor it; and if they want to know why, you can tell them this story.

Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few, but the universal right of all God's children.

I heard one presidential candidate say that what this country needed was a president for the nineties. I was set to run again. I thought he said a president IN his nineties.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.