The death tax should be completely and permanently repealed now in order to make the Tax Code fairer and simpler and to eliminate the harmful drag this tax has on the economy.
My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building.
The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.
Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all.
The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free. France, education is free.
You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.
Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.
Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.
Sometimes when, you know, God tries to correct you in private and if you don't catch it he'll correct you in public.
As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.
The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.
I made my money the old-fashioned way; I inherited it. I think that's a great thing to do.
The Bible is the only credible guide either as to the real relationship between man and the earth and the great Creator of both or concerning the purpose of the creation of both.
I met Barack Obama, I read his book, I like him a great deal. I disagree with him on very fundamental issues.
Obama's policies have been approximately the same as Bush's, though there have been some slight differences, but that's not a great surprise. The Democrats supported Bush's policies.
But despite historic levels of obstruction, President Obama was able to bring the economy back from the verge of a second Great Depression.
I remember my mom had a big collection of copies of Saturday Evening Post magazines, and that was really my introduction to those great illustrators.
It has always seemed to me that Barack Obama has studied intensely and learned a great deal from Lincoln.
The better life rests less on the prohibitions of the Ten Commandments and more on the parable of the Good Samaritan and the Golden Rule.
The hardest decisions in life are not between good and bad or right and wrong, but between two goods or two rights.
Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
