If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability _ economic, political and social.

Before my tenure, people didn’t seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.

Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that’s its highest and best application.

Liberals often don’t see the problems, and conservatives don’t see the promise, of government.

It’s healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.

I suggest to you that increasing the size of America’s economic pie – which can be achieved only if everybody has a seat at the table – is the most important challenge facing our country today.

It’s not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.

There’s no Walter Cronkite to give you the final word each evening.

My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer’s money, and that cut pretty deep.

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don’t have an incentive to.