You know if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.
The best minds are not in government. If any were business would steal them away.
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire it wafts across the electrified borders.
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.
The best minds are not in government. If any were business would steal them away.
We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare not by how many are added.
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs once launched never disappear. Actually a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. And if it stops moving subsidize it.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Government's first duty is to protect the people not run their lives.
Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
The problem is not that people are taxed too little the problem is that government spends too much.
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs once launched never disappear. Actually a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. And if it stops moving subsidize it.
Man is not free unless government is limited.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence imagination and wonder.
Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.
Thomas Jefferson once said 'We should never judge a president by his age only by his works.' And ever since he told me that I stopped worrying.
Before I refuse to take your questions I have an opening statement.
Inflation is as violent as a mugger as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence imagination and wonder.