I’m proud of having been one of the first to recognize that states and the federal government have a duty to protect our natural resources from the damaging effects of pollution that can accompany industrial development.
Government should uphold-and not undermine-those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above all, family.
Our loyalty lies with little taxpayers, not big spenders. What our critics really believe is that those in Washington know better how to spend your money than you, the people, do. But we’re not going to let them do it, period.
The difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks.
Revenues should be increased not by increasing the tax rates on the individual but by building a bigger economy for everybody.
California produces 40% of America’s fresh fruits, vegetables and nuts – the kind you eat. We have had a bumper crop of the other variety, too.
Freedom prospers only where the blessings of God are avidly sought, and humbly accepted.
Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit. They can provide you shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you’re ill, all the things guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave. They don’t understand that we also dream.
Governments don’t reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth.
I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it.
Baseball is our national pastime, that is if you discount political campaigning.
If we get the federal government out of the classroom, maybe we’ll get God back in.
Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no.
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
Throughout America today, we honor the dead of our wars. We recall their valor and their sacrifices. We remember they gave their lives so that others might live.
Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again.
General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
America needs jobs and opportunity, not make-work and handouts.
We now know that inflation results from all that deficit spending.
Anybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and become an American.