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The concept of government of, by, and for the people isn't just a platitude. It's the moral construction of our nation. It's in our bones.
Because I don`t think it`s true. I don`t think corruption is endemic to the process in Annapolis at all. It`s the exception, not the rule.
You see, party labels do not ensure unanimity any more than trying to cast the challenge we confront as a people through a partisan prism.
A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?
I think what you can see is that we have worked very closely with China. China has really stood up in putting the pressure on North Korea.
If you design communities for automobiles, you get more automobiles. If you design them for people, you get walkable, livable communities.
I could literally go on for pages upon pages about Mattis and how influential this man was to me and many others who fought alongside him.
Gen. Mattis is a warrior. What I appreciate about Gen. Mattis is he understands the principle that if you go to war, you go to war to win.
It doesn't matter is you call it 'Obama-care' or 'Elvis Presley care' or 'I-don't-care care.' It cannot sustain itself in its present form.
When I end up yelling, it's not really deliberate. It's usually out of some moment of passion or frustration or real desire to get unstuck.
They who set an example make a highway. Others follow the example, because it is easier to travel on a highway than over untrodden grounds.
He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.
Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing.
I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.
Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low.
Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing.
We need to secure our southern border. Clearly, the southern border is now a nexus between immigration and national security. It's a sieve.
The way things are going, we are not too far from the day when it will take an hour's labor just to pay for the gasoline to get to the job.
I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote on the issue.
We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.
A government that seizes control of the economy for the good of the people ends up seizing control of the people for the good of the economy
Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.
New constellations of truth are daily discovered in the firmament of knowledge, and new stars are daily shining forth in each constellation.
The reason we have to regulate . . . church schools is that . . . children that are not trained in state-controlled schools will not fit in.
If you started a business when Christ was born and lost $1 million a day, it would still take another 700 years before you lost $1 trillion.
If both John McCain and Obama were given a sip of truth serum, both would admit they made serious mistakes in choosing running mates in 2008.
I encourage people to find and use the power of their voices just as much when I do not agree with those voices as when I do agree with them.
I don't think we should focus on what church that person walks into .. I think we need to focus on what they do when they walk out of church.
The United States should have stepped up and destroyed ISIS at its origins rather than wait until ISIS grew their capabilities and influence.
I'm proud of Congress as a body. At the end of the day, we're the people's house, and we should be very mindful that we represent the people.
An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
If Lincoln had an affair with a slave woman, it would be an outrage, but when Clinton does it with one of his staff, everyone is okay with it.
I led a comfortable life, went to good schools and was privileged in many ways, but my father worked hard. We never considered ourselves rich.
I worry about 10, 15, 20, 25 years down the road. Where are we going to be in this age of nuclear weapons, where there is no margin for error?
The reality of it is I think the GOP - Republicans and certainly conservatives - will partner with the Tea Party movement around this country.
Arizona has become a national leader in the restoration of the Rule of Law, with over 100,000 illegal aliens having left the state since 2007.
I love my country, and the mental and physical demands of the Navy SEALs was what I had been training for my whole life growing up in Montana.
Barry Goldwater once said ruefully, and I know how he feels. "It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be President . . . except me."
If you don't like me, life goes on, you know what I mean? But I hope you do like me. Because I think that in addition to being pushy, I'm nice.
The only way the Internet will continue to remain the thriving medium it has become today is to keep it under the control of the United States.
Marriage is a civil right. If you don't want gay people to marry in your church, good for you. But you can't say they can't marry in your city.
Everybody in life has something that they get knocked down on. The object lesson here is not that you get knocked down - it is that you get up.
I'm an advocate for a full spectrum of energy policy, but we're never going to get there with solar cells that are going to power this country.
If you find a node that you can penetrate, that you can eliminate, and draw more information for future operations, I think it's prudent to do.
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
Press forward at all times, climbing forward toward that higher ground of the harmonious society that shapes the laws of man to the laws of God.
A spirit of harmony can only survive if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny.
Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.
If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.
At the end of the day, somebody someday is going to say something about you. At least you can look back and say you lived the way you wanted to.