Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.
Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing.
When you're encouraging - the government is encouraging guns to be sold illegally to people that shouldn't have them, the laws aren't being faithfully executed.
My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.
Socialism's not a word that I use. I say 'social democracy' because I don't think the government needs to own all the means of production.
My own belief is that the way we grow the economy, create jobs, create wealth is in the private sector. The government doesn't do that.
I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.
Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government.
It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds, the interests of our constituency primarily and of the Nation ultimately are served.
After serving in the Korean War, I actually started working towards a master's degree in finance.
If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.
The Republican Party is not in the hands of the Jewish lobby in America as the Democratic Party must look quite often to Jewish money to finance candidates.
A lot of interviewers are looking for the dark side. They want to know about the depths of your despair and fear.
When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you'll never get back in shape.
We've begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with it.
You always fear when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson.
We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.
I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly and steadily and without any quickening if the league were to perish altogether.
I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.
The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.
Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.
