Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity; not stifle it.

For too long, the victims of crime have been the forgotten persons of our criminal justice system.

It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of what they know isn't so

For decades, we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children's future for the temporary convenience of the present. To continue this long trend is to guarantee tremendous social, cultural, political, and economic upheavals. You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. Why, then, should we think that collectively, as a nation, we are not bound by that same limitation?

In my eighty years, I prefer to call that the forty-first anniversary of my thirty ninth birthday, I've seen what men can do for each other and do to each other, I've seen war and peace, feast and famine, depression and prosperity, sickness and health. I've seen the depth of suffering and the peaks of triumph and I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph and that there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us.

Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.