Big government is the most corrupt industry in America.

You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us.

We don't need a nation that has national identity cards.

Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.

Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.

I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress.

I'm a big supporter of immigration.

It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.

Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.

The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.

Being American is not a matter of birth. We must practice it every day, lest we become something else.

Love, like destiny, loves surprises.

Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.

I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon.

In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration.

I had a calling to become what I became - I was created to do this.

At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing.

Most people I know I think agree and even many theists agree with this. We don't want government involved.

I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting.

The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter.

Yeah i saw An Inconvenient Truth, and i dont want to say it was preachy but let's not kid ourselves, i've got far more important work to do