People aren't stupid. I mean, people remember in 1990, the unemployment rate was 10 percent. Now it's 4 _ percent. We've got 1/4 million jobs that we've created.

So government acts as a safeguard of our property.

My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep.

In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.

We need a complete ban on soft money, which is sort of an enveloping problem, and a ceiling on the amount of money that can be spent on a given race.

Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.