Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent hardworking honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then we elected them.

For most Americans Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

And that's how it is in America. We look to our communities our faiths our families for our joy our support in good times and bad. It is both how we live our lives and why we live our lives.

To me to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution.

Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

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