The most troubling aspect of social policy towards the poor in late 20th century America is or how much it costs, but what it has bought.

Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time - more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness because it drives everything else.

We tried to provide more for the poor and produced more poor instead. We tried to remove the barriers to escape poverty, and inadvertently built a trap.

It was raining cats and dogs, and I fell in a poodle.

Give people plenty and security, and they will fall into spiritual torpor.

The welfare state is an enemy of private property. The excessive taxation used to support the welfare state is extremely dangerous.

Educational romanticism asks too much from students at the bottom of the intellectual pile, asks the wrong things from those in the middle, and asks too little from those at the top.

We believe that human happiness requires freedom and that freedom requires limited government.

When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do, ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the Europe syndrome.

The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land that all children are to be above average.

To Operate In Misery Is To Disregard The Original Intention Of God

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

The Henty books provide training in history and in many of the highest aspects of human character... American young people should read not a few Henty books, but all 99 of them.

I hate government. I'm apolitical. Write that down. I'm not a Republican.

I’ve noticed that one thing about parents is that no matter what stage your child is in, the parents who have older children always tell you the next stage is worse.

Every room has a mood or personality...and it is this that one desires to develop.

It's just that only now are women coming around, and when someone as striking as Alanis or Sheryl Crow comes out, the public just needs something to compare it to.

He wasn't sure exactly which day, but what's noteworthy about that is that is also before Valerie Plame is first identified in the Robert Novak piece that ran on Monday, July 14.

Don't get mad except on purpose.

He was through playing games. When it came to Soteria, he had no sense of humor whatsoever. Anyone who threatened her, ended their life. It was that simple.