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

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 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.

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.

If there's something you really want to believe, that's what you should question the most.

Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.

I had this sister that was born who was given up for adoption, and I never knew it.

A good fragrance is really a powerful cocktail of memories and emotion.

Since coming to Congress, I have been advocating for increased resources for research in the physical sciences and for the Department of Energy Office of Science in particular.

There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way.

It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.

The income tax is flawed for a number of reasons - it discourages economic growth and encourages a bloated government.

I can rely on me [being a director], unlike some actors. I never got anything less than what I needed from the lead actor.

You're a mouse studying to be a rat.