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The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.
I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.
I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
We must win the war on poverty by enlisting the greatest weapon ever invented - free enterprise
And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business.
Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.
After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.
The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
In the final analysis, it is your decision to make, but it doesn't move as fast as I'd like it to move.
The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.
I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.
HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country.
When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
The only law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown.
We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism.
There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
I was soon drawn to the Republican Party because I realized that it truly, not just rhetorically, believed in equality.
There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
In a recent fire Bob Dole's library burned down. Both books were lost. And he hadn't even finished coloring one of them.
You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.
The hurricane complicates things in that what would have been purely a business decision becomes a decision of the heart.
Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.
American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.
All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
As Secretary of Housing, I do have to express alarm, signal the alarm if you will, that the potential for homelessness to grow is there.
America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color you are.
Health care amounts to l4% of our GNP-a lot of money. It is the size of the Italian economy. And the president turned it over to his wife.
Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.
The other part of outsourcing is this: it simply says where the work can be done outside better than it can be done inside, we should do it.
Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, a problem-solving people. And when given a direction and given a plan, they'll sign on.
The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.
I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.
My wife had a miscarriage. We have rarely talked about it. It did make me more aware of the sanctity of human life, how precious every child is.
There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.
Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best,' the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward government.
I was a little lacking in vision as mayor - I failed to understand the significance that housing and the revitalization of housing means for a city.
I believe that if you are elderly, physically or mentally handicapped we have an obligation too you, but if you are able-bodied, you should be working.
The chance to own a home; chance to own an education; chance to get access to capital. This is the real civil rights battle of the twenty-first century.
Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it.
In America, we tax work, investment, employment, savings, and production, while we subsidize non-work, consumption, and debt. It's time we reverse this trend.
We are going to make sure that America is open to legal immigration because that is wealth and the talent and the entrepreneurial skills for the 21st Century.
One of the problems that we are confronted with is, when we decide to buy or build a home, we don't get a clear picture of what closing costs will be of that home.
I think the American people want to see the interactivity between candidates and audiences, and tough questions posed by people and how you handle them under fire.
As you know, in this country Anglo-Americans are about 75 to 76 percent home ownership in this country, where Hispanics, African Americans are less than 50 percent.