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"Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals."
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"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."

"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom."

"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."

"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."

"I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government."

"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."

"You measure a government by how few people need help."

"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."

"Americans accept that gangsters are running the government."

"Americans have an expectation that the Postal Service will abide by its well-known, although unofficial, motto - a commitment to deliver."
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"We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support."

"I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family."

"We have to be a state where business is welcome and jobs are created. We have to demand value for what is spent and we need to continue to resist a lottery."

"I was with some Vietnamese recently, and some of them were smoking two cigarettes at the same time. That's the kind of customers we need!"

"There was no Congressional Club for my first campaign. There was no organized state group of Young Republicans, but there was a dedicated core of young people who volunteered to do anything my campaign needed."

"It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment."

"It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something."

"I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him."

"I want our young people to believe as we did that there is no goal too high to reach if they are willing to work."
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