Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of free citizens to government is a bad thing.

Big Government is erecting a panopticon state - one that sees everything, and regulates everything. It’s great “customer service,” except that you can never get out of the store.

Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.

But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down?

The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it.

Question: How much do you have to invest in the future before you've spent it and no longer have one?

LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.

There may be many things wrong with the United States but only a blind fool who hasn't been paying attention for the last twenty years would hold up Europe as the alternative.

Those who can do. Those who can't form a supercommittee.

The Democratic Party is uniquely virulently racist and pro-slavery to a degree unseen anywhere in the English-speaking world!

The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.

Worry only about what you control. The rest is war.

To build the bridges of love, extend your hands of kindness.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

You can't make a recipe for something as complicated as surgery. Instead, you can make a recipe for how to have a team that's prepared for the unexpected.

I'm on this road for the rest of my life.

In real life, events seem much less dramatic.

When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch.

A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit.

I seem restless, but am deeply at ease. Branches tremble; the roots are still.

Generosity is giving until it makes you uncomfortable.