Irresponsibility breeds irresponsibility. The finances of government are so central. You'd think that would be pretty obvious.

You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.

To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.

Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children's prospects.

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.

I'm a Democrat, and there are an important group of things only the government can do. But let us be clear that for most of the world, what they most need is less government.

If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.

I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals?

The principal objective of American government at every level should be to see that children are born into intact families and that they remain so.

Women are not just waiting to be filled up with resources-they're waiting to put their resources on the table to be able to lead towards a different world

You should be kissed and often and by someone who knows how. -Rhett Bulter, Gone with the Wind” ― Margaret Mitchell

Pray because you have a Father not because it quietens you and give Him time to answer.

Agreeing to disagree is a prerogative only of those who live under a democratic system.

We are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman's famous 'helicopter drop' of money.

I have more than one side of me that likes to get out on a stage and sing.

Yes, I'm a musician. I also like to play with others, sometimes more, sometimes less.

Humility is the surest sign of strength.

The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.