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I took a vow of political celibacy.
My record is, far as I know, unimpeachable.
Every successful enterprise has a very clear strategic purpose.
I refer to the debt - the new red menace. This time consisting of ink.
A one-time tax does not get figured into people's investment decisions.
There is nothing inconsistent about having a conservative outlook and being vigorous.
[Obama's reelection] would subject the country to what might be a fatal last dose of statism.
Anything that strengthens the private sector vs. the state is protective of personal freedom.
I believe that the Right to Work issue is a perfectly appropriate one for Indiana to look at.
The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo.
We believe that government works for the benefit of private life, and not the other way around.
We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government.
Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.
Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.
As Republicans, our first concern is for those waiting tonight to begin or resume the climb up life's ladder.
Our first thought is always for those on life's first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing.
We must display a heart for every American, and a special passion for those still on the first rung of life's ladder.
The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it.
We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration.
If we don't believe in Americans, who will? I do believe. I've seen it in the people of our very typical corner of the nation.
We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves.
Our fiscal ruin and resulting loss of world leadership will, in their [liberals'] eyes, be not a tragic event but a desirable one.
All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty.
Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.
Starting a new retirement plan for those below a certain age is something tens of millions of Americans have already been through at work.
We see government's mission as fostering and enabling the important realms - our businesses, service clubs, Little Leagues, churches - to flourish.
No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others.
No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.
In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it.
We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.
I certainly believe in limited government but protecting children against injury abuse is certainly inside my sphere of things that the government should do.
Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in our classrooms.
Every citizen who stops smoking, or loses a few pounds, or starts managing his chronic disease with real diligence, is caulking a crack for the benefit of us all.
The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing.
Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids; why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb.
Sure, things could always have been done better, but I just wish people would drop their political hammers for a few weeks, as happened in 2001, and work on the problem at hand
Sure, things could always have been done better, but I just wish people would drop their political hammers for a few weeks, as happened in 2001, and work on the problem at hand.
The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.
The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.'
We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.
If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come
If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come.
The president wasn't dragged anywhere, ... In reality, I think, it was his opposition which was dragged upstairs one step at a time from zero to this number that was very close to what the president proposed.
The president's grand experiment in trickle-down government has held back rather than sped economic recovery. He seems to sincerely believe we can build a middle class out of government jobs paid for with borrowed dollars.
When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'
So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one percent on the income they receive.
Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make.
We must not falsely teach American history in our schools. We have a law requiring state textbook oversight to guard against frauds like Zinn, and it was encouraging to find that no Hoosier school district had inflicted his book on its students.
The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with debts as huge as ours.
Finally, treat domestic energy production as the economic necessity it is and the job creator it can be. Drill, and frack, and lease, and license, unleash in every way the jobs potential in the enormous energy resources we have been denying ourselves.