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" Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government. "
Government
Limit
Right
" Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that. "
Opportunity
Believe
Now
" Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application. "
Sense
Best
Government
" Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice. "
Well
Role
Government
" Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs. "
Noble
Never
Government
" I dare say that a majority of the American people think that having a fair hearing on an issue of importance in our relations with Mexico is extremely important to our national interest, as well as theirs. "
American
Say
People
" I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone. "
Country
Alone
Understand
" I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well. "
Freedom
Abortion
Think
" 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. "
Political
Economic
Going
" I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me. "
Realize
Come
Everything
" In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong. "
Wrong
Slavery
Never
" 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. "
Today
America
Challenge
" I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum. "
Theft
Think
Duty
" I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness. "
Happiness
Think
Us
" I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change. "
Change
Looking
Think
" It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office. "
Office
Healthy
Government
" It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free. "
Free
Good
Government
" Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government. "
See
Problems
Liberals
" Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government. "
People
Sex
Think
" Micro managing anything is not a great role for government. "
Government
Great
Micro
" Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press. "
Press
Much
Boredom
" 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. "
Only
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. "
Protect
Business
Natural
" One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties. "
Property
Act
Government
" Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea. "
People
Bad
Idea
" People aren't stupid. I mean, people remember in 1990, the unemployment rate was 10 percent. Now it's 4 _ percent. We've got 1/4 million jobs that we've created. "
Remember
Now
Got
" So government acts as a safeguard of our property. "
Property
Our
Government
" Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year. "
Senior
Fairness
Tax
" The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government. "
Dangerous
Three
Branches
" There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy. "
Departed
Issues
Republican
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