You get a little stir crazy during the week.
Dreams became issues of East versus West. Hopes became political rhetoric. Progress became a search for power and domination. Somewhere the truth was lost that people don’t make war, governments do.
We meant to change a nation, and instead, we changed a world.
Detente – isn’t that what a farmer has with his turkey – until Thanksgiving?
Through you, we feel as giants, once again.
When I’ve heard all I need to make a decision, I don’t take a vote. I make a decision.
You know, by the time you reach my age, you’ve made plenty of mistakes if you’ve lived your life properly.
To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership-not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere.
The ongoing migration of persons to the United States in violation of our laws is a serious national problem detrimental to the interests of the United States.
Our country and state have a special obligation to work toward the stabilization of our own population so as to credibly lead other parts of the world toward population stabilization.
I think maybe there could be some restrictions that there had to be a certain amount of training taken.
The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn’t feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it.
Nations do not distrust each other because they are armed. They are armed because they distrust each other.
When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights, national self-determination, and respect for the rule of law.
Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only chaos and disorder; and without freedom, law is but a cynical veneer for injustice and oppression.
Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.
Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used.
If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capcity to govern someone else.
Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.
This democracy of ours, which sometimes we’ve treated so lightly, is more than ever a comfortable cloak, so let us not tear it asunder, for no man knows, once it is destroyed, where or when he will find its protective warmth again.