“Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.”

There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Please tell me you’re Republicans.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for ‘the mess we’re in.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

The future doesn’t belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

I’ve always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other.

Facts are stupid things.

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.

They say hard work never hurt anybody, but I figure why take the chance.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

There are no easy answers’ but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.

I was raised to believe that God has a plan for everyone and that seemingly random twists of fate are all a part of His plan.

I will always work for human rights for all people.

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.

Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country.

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.