I have a great love and respect for religion great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism people who do not choose.

In Republics the great danger is that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement and I've done that sort of thing in my life but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

In the book I define conservatism as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution respect for life less government and personal responsibility.

All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.

We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.

The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease often referred to as 'progress' doesn't spread.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.