Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works. So they literally have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day. They have no habit of ‘I do this and you give me cash’ unless it’s illegal.
I don’t see how the party that says it’s the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.
When a court goes too far, it actually weakens our respect for judicial institutions.
I’m not a natural leader. I’m too intellectual; I’m too abstract; I think too much.
The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.
The sacrament of marriage is based on a man and woman.
The long experiment with professional politicians and professional government is over, and it failed.
I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.
The Congress is pretty powerful if it wants to be.