The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.
And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end.
If you get asked a really tough question and you give a really good answer, you come off looking really good.
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.
I understand that I'm not perfect. I made mistakes and I had a hand in everything that's happened to me, good and bad.
The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect.
We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas.
I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people and at home with the desperately poor has been good for me in preparation for my coming to Washington.
I worked at a hospital for a week. And at a golf course when I was in college at Kansas for about a week. The tips weren't good so I quit.
Everything about Washington is inconsistent, because they say one thing and do another, which is what my opponent, Claire McCaskill, is very, very good at.
We have had actually a decline in government service overall, but the growth is in high-tech areas, specialty areas in the Labor Department and other departments.
Many in local government will ask why should only a few areas have the freedoms and benefits of Enterprise Zone status while the majority lose out?
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is - it is important to take part in the process of shaping our government.
What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.
The revolution has been dubbed The Orange Revolution, orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko. The demonstrators say they are tired of living under a corrupt government.
I believe the only measure of government response shouldn't be how much we spend on a situation, but rather how well we spend.
Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and saw them enforced.
We have a lot of things we give away to people who are very, very wealthy in this country. And I'm not sure that our federal government can afford that.
But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.
