Government spending clearly needs some adjusting. But a budget is a statement of our priorities, and balancing our spending on the backs of our nation's seniors is not the right approach.
Well, the problem of the federal government is that they print money and go in debt. That's their national policy, Democrats and Republicans it doesn't matter. And this is where I differ.
The nation is arming. What are they arming for if it isn't that they are so distrustful of their government? They're afraid they'll have to fight for their liberty in more Second Amendment kinds of ways.
Rather than improving the wealth of their own nation, the Mexican government encourages its poor to come to the U.S. and send money home.
From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.
The vast majority of Malaysians are sensible people; they're moderates, they want peace, they want harmonious race relations at home. They look for national unity.
We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our artists possess. Favored Nations will be branded as the home base for inspired musical talent.
If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.
We want more women players to take up chess. There are few participants at the national level and hope it will grow.
Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their nations and the dignity of their leaders.
Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.
It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.
Throwing off despotism and tyranny is our history and part of our national identity - something in which we can take incredible pride.
The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation.
Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.
A generation without history is a generation that not only loses a nation's memory but loses a sense of what it's like to be inside a human skin.
Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change.
Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures.
My organization, National Action Network (NAN), was on the ground talking and meeting with people in Ferguson, just as we did in Staten Island following Eric Garner's death.
Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that.
A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.