“We think there is a parallel between the Federal involvement in education and the decline in quality over recent years.”

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

The taxpayer – that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.

If there’s one observation that rings true in today’s changing world, it is that freedom and peace go hand in hand.

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver 5 minutes longer.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

No, I’m just a man committed to great ideas.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

It is time to realize we are too great a nation for small dreams. We’re not – as some would have us believe – doomed to an inevitable fate.

A leader, once convinced a particular course of action is the right one, must have the determination to stick with it and be undaunted when the going gets tough.

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they’re sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive.

We must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.

If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.

Many of those who purchased their residence more than a year ago have equity buffers in their homes adequate to withstand any price decline other than a very deep one.

But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.

A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage.

My life is a stairway to heaven, not a ‘decline into decrepitude.

People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.