Alan Keyes, a staunch conservative and political commentator, has been a vocal advocate for conservative principles and values throughout his career. From his tenure as a diplomat to his multiple runs for public office, Keyes has remained steadfast in his convictions, challenging conventional wisdom and championing a vision of limited government and individual liberty.
"Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients."
"One individual doesn't really accept the pro-life position of the party, and the other... says he supports it and takes a position that is logically inconsistent."
"I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God."
"I don't think that has to be our choice... This party was born in principle. This party will die if it doesn't stand by its decision of principle."
"Our first responsibility is not to ourselves. Our first responsibility is to our country and to our God."
"The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed."
"When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom."
"We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts."
"We need to get rid of the 16th amendment, and return to the original system that funds government with a variety of tariffs and duties."