Yes, the deficit doctors have their scalpels out all right, but they're not poised over the budget. That's as fat as ever and getting fatter. What they're ready to operate on is your wallet.

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

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

Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process.

People are tired of wasteful government programs and welfare chiselers, and they are angry about the constant spiral of taxes and government regulations, arrogant bureaucrats, and public officials who think all of mankind's problems can be solved by throwing the taxpayers dollars at them.

I've always believed that this blessed land was set apart in a special way, that some divine plan placed this great continent here between the oceans to be found by people from every corner of the Earth who had a special love for freedom and the courage to uproot themselves, leave homeland and friends, to come to a strange land. And coming here they created something new in all the history of mankind-a land where man is not beholden to government, government is beholden to man.

I was raised to believe that God has a plan for everyone and that seemingly random twists of fate are all a part of His plan.