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

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.

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

The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.

I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I've been doing it as a part-time job.

Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone.

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

My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.

We mean by "politics" the people's business - the most important business there is.

Slovakia's joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business.

The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not.

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.

It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.

I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.

Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.