Either you will control your government, or government will control you.

Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest.

Detente - isn't that what a farmer has with his turkey - until Thanksgiving?

A state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens; the more decent the citizens, the more decent the state.

I was 21 and looking for work in 1932, one of the worst years of the Great Depression. And I can remember one bleak night in the thirties when my father learned on Christmas Eve that he'd lost his job. To be young in my generation was to feel that your future had been mortgaged out from under you, and that's a tragic mistake we must never allow our leaders to make again.

Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying-go down in flames. No, if I can get 70 or 80 percent of what it is I'm trying to get ... I'll take that and then continue to try to get the rest in the future.

Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?