This is a generation weaned on Watergate and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead there is a presumption that without relentless scrutiny the government will misbehave.

I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions.

We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government.

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant if not the most momentous event of our generation.

The less government interferes with private pursuits the better for general prosperity.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

Just in general any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated because then they couldn't control them as easily.

Life in general has never been even close to fair so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

History in general only informs us of what bad government is.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.