We’re going to have the best educated American people in the world. People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
Through much of the last century, America’s faith in freedom and democracy was a rock in a raging sea. Now it is a seed upon the wind, taking root in many nations.
The all-volunteer army works. It works particularly when we pay our troops well.
I wouldn’t pick a judge who said that the Pledge of Allegiance couldn’t be said in a school because it had the words ’under God? in it. I think that’s an example of a judge allowing personal opinion to enter into the decision-making process, as opposed to strict interpretation of the Constitution.
We run a danger of trying to say the casualties are less than other wars or more than expected. It’s just everybody matters, every person matters, and what really matters is having the strategy and the will to make sure any death is honored by achieving an objective.
I fully understand it’s important to maintain the separation of church and state. We don’t want the state to become the church, nor do we want the church to become the state.
There’s a way to accomplish the separation of church and state, and at the same time, accomplish the social objective of having America become a hopeful place, and a loving place.
We Americans have faith in ourselves, but not in ourselves alone. We do not know-we do not claim to know all the ways of Providence, yet we can trust in them, placing our confidence in the loving God behind all of life, and all of history.
Saddam Hussein was a unique threat. And the world is better off without him in power.
I think it is a worthy goal in America to have every child protected by law and welcomed in life. I also think we ought to continue to have good adoption law as an alternative to abortion.
I will always stand firm to protect the sanctity of marriage. I believe it is important to work with people to find common ground on difficult issues.
Sometimes in this world you make unpopular decisions because you think they’re right.
Our nation must defend the sanctity of marriage. The outcome of this debate is important-and so is the way we conduct it. The same moral tradition that defines marriage also teaches that each individual has dignity and value in God’s sight.
I’m telling America we need to not discriminate against faith-based programs. We need to welcome them so our society is more wholesome, more welcoming, and more hopeful for every single citizen.
It is the government’s strong desire to empower this fabric, this social fabric of our society where faith-based programs large and small feel empowered, encouraged, and welcomed into changing lives.
I believe the role of government is to stand side by side with our citizens to help them realize their dreams, not tell citizens how to live their lives.
He’s my man, he was great.
Somebody accused us of hiring him and putting him there. He was a classic.
They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it’s some kind of federal program.
Looking across this field, we see the scale of heroism and sacrifice. All who are buried here understood their duty. All stood to protect America. And all carried with them memories of a family that they hoped to keep safe by their sacrifice.