For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.
He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.
We will downsize the government, motivate excess employees to become entrepreneurs, and increase the pay of a lean and mean bureaucracy.
Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started.
Increasingly, the Chinese will own a lot more of the world because they will be converting their dollar reserves and U.S. government bonds into real assets.
A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic; reformism is basically optimistic.
In the end, there will always be a fundamental difference of perspective between New Zealand and Australia on defense, whoever is in government.
Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
Social Security is not just another government spending program. It is a promise from generation to generation.
The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
It wouldn't do me much good to back somebody that won in Iowa if they can't carry on the campaign elsewhere.
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.
A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
We can seize this time and do it our way and in the process be proud of ourselves and prosper as well.
Corporate tax dodging impacts us across generations and over time. It is corrosive. It is unethical. It is unsustainable.
The new rule of thumb is that 80% of a president's time must be spent in raising funds for their schools.
Legislative novelty is not necessarily fatal; there is a first time for everything.
Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
One of the mistakes I made was placing too much trust in Montesinos.
