I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles.

Well, WorldCom's growth exploded in the Clinton years, there's no question, there's no disputing that.

I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.

It bothers me to read the comments of leaders of the Hamas and others who hate America that their goal is to have more weaponry capable of delivering all types of weapons of mass destruction.

If people are going to be cooking the books, you're in trouble.

I have always thought that Israel, as an independent and sovereign nation, had a right to defend itself.

I hope there will be some good news and some good profits, and people will realize we have a lot of outstanding executives, and a lot of companies that are doing a good job, and those are good companies to invest in.

My last comment was, though, that Congress has cooked the books.

ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders.

If your basic premise about the fundamental purpose of our government is that it must provide for the common defense, then no other position is possible.

If you really believe the number one priority of our government is the protection of our people, then the idea of being defenseless against an intercontinental ballistic missile or any other type of weapon system that puts us in jeopardy is not acceptable.

I always intended to return to the private sector.

And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you're talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership; and you're part of that leadership.

But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.

When you look at other countries that are developing the capabilities and the technology to deploy missiles of very significant destructive capability with nuclear, chemical, or biological warheads, then the MAD dogma makes even less sense.

But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.

I'm always a little cautious, there's a few amendments that are out there that I think could do some damage, so I've been more concerned about over regulating, going too far.

I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles.

I think there's bipartisan support in the Senate to pass a good reform bill.

My State Senate district was in the northern part of Oklahoma and they were redrawing the districts.

I want to compliment The Heritage Foundation for its work on behalf of a strong national defense.

Well, we want to make sure there's not securities fraud.

I still happen to think the United States is the greatest place in the world to invest.

Jim mentioned I was an ALEC member, and that's correct.

Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.

In a very alert and bright state of society people learn co-operation by themselves, but in older and quieter conditions of laboring enterprise, such a bill as I propose will point out the way to mutual exertion.

The state should, I think, be called 'anesthesia.' This signifies insensibility.

No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers.

But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.

It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form.

Similarly, the problem of the rights of the state in the disposition of inheritances left by individuals presents social aspects of the first importance.

The surest way to return to the people's business is to listen to the people themselves: We need to drop this whole scheme of federally controlled health care, start over, and work together on real reforms at the state level that will contain costs and won't leave America trillions of dollars deeper in debt.

An important part of what the state does is preserving its history.

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government.

One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way.

The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.

And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence.

Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox brethren recognize only the Holy Land, but not the state.

It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy.

I visited the Chinese side last year. The Chinese are in a constant state of military readiness. They have all their nuclear weapons in the area, presumably trained on targets across the border.

From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.

We have the melancholy dilemma of not being in a state to make peace or to prosecute war.

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

I kept an interested eye on the transfer window in England, which opened and closed last month, and the lack of frantic activity just goes to show the current financial state of the game right now.

I think it's awful that the state of Oklahoma a couple of years ago passed this law to give the same tuition to illegals as they do to people who are residents of Oklahoma. I think it's wrong.

The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.