I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone.

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.

Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government.

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

I dare say that a majority of the American people think that having a fair hearing on an issue of importance in our relations with Mexico is extremely important to our national interest, as well as theirs.

I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone.

Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.

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.

Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.

One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.

We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody.

It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.

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.

The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts.

So government acts as a safeguard of our property.

Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice.

Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.

I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change.

It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

I suggest to you that increasing the size of America's economic pie - which can be achieved only if everybody has a seat at the table - is the most important challenge facing our country today.

The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites.

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

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

There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy.

Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that.

The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.

If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability _ economic, political and social.

Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea.

Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.

I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well.

Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government.

But like the rest of the country, Maine has reached an impasse, for most of the mercury that fouls our skies, waters and land comes from outside our borders.

Education is the cornerstone of our communities and our country.

For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

The successful establishment of a buffer zone around Fort Carson will provide an example for other bases around the country as we seek to protect the training mission of the U.S. military while preserving critical habitats on our ranges.

Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.

It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you're dealt?

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of the country and people near the Rocky mountains where they had been.

It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.

Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disney was some sort of god and that animation was some sort of pure thing for children.

To stop terrorists before the strike, we must do three things: deny them entry into the country, curtail their freedom of action inside the country, and deprive them of material and moral support from within the country.