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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.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.

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

There are some mistakes only someone with a Ph.D. can make.

Pandaemonium was inhabited by creatures quite convinved that the great Satan had their best interests at heart. Poor little devils.

As the family goes, so go the children.

To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.

The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults.

What is not discussed, will not be advanced.

It has proved politically wiser to set goals than to start programs.

If you don't have 30 years to devote to social policy, don't get involved.

Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?'

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

The American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government.

Things become complicated if there are enough people to complexify them.

The Lord looks after drunks and Americans.

No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty.

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

The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having ...

People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact.

When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are good men in jail.

If we get into the mind-set where the good becomes the enemy of the best, we will get nothing.

A responsible government does not triple the national debt in eight years.

Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.

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

At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of the Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family.

Secrecy is for losers.

The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth.

The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.

We have the right to our own opinions, but not our own facts.

The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.

The status quo is working.

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

Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.