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

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.

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.