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I think we have lost track of a core Republican principle of limited government and balancing budgets and restraining federal spending. We have got to change the system.Collection: Sam
I went to law school with a plan of going back home and practicing law to support my farming, and Dad said, 'There's just not room here for us.' So I took off to practice law and got involved in some politics, and the rest just moved on forward.Collection: Sam
There's no religious test in our country, and there shouldn't be. We're an open, competitive society.Collection: Sam
I love Canada. Canada is a great neighbour. Canada has been a great friend and neighbor for many, many years.Collection: Sam
The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.Collection: Sam
Instead of getting angry at somebody for opposing you on something, you're just praying for them. You just pray blessings on them, blessings on their family.Collection: Sam
Frankly, one of the problems we have in the country is we're not forming enough families. And that is hurting our economic work, and it's hurting our economic projections, because the best place for a child is within a strong family unit.Collection: Sam
There is a disturbing reincarnation of socialist and nationalist dictatorships raising their heads around the world and even in our own back yard. You see it in places like Venezuela and Bolivia, stoked in no small part by Cuba, and also in Central Asia, and troubling trends in Russia and China.Collection: Sam
Before 9/11, our defense policy was based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights; we will never be an aggressor.Collection: Sam
Along with Senator Lieberman and others, I introduced the Energy Security Bill to use existing technologies with a variety of tax incentives to reduce our dependence on oil.Collection: Sam
Consider this: The United States held its first presidential election in 1789. It marked the first peaceful transfer of executive power between parties in the fourth presidential election in 1801, and it took another 200 years' worth of presidential elections before the courts had to settle an election.Collection: Sam
Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.Collection: Sam
As the Cold War melts into history, our first concern should be the preservation and extension of human rights and democracy.Collection: Sam
Federal waste is a grave disservice to hardworking taxpayers across our great nation, and yet our governmental bureaucracies are riddled with it - whether through unnecessary, duplicative, inefficient, outdated, or failed agencies and programs.Collection: Sam
Prioritizing spending and maximizing the effectiveness of taxpayer dollars is absolutely essential. We must draw the line, realigning programs when necessary and also eliminating failed programs.Collection: Sam
BRAC originated in the 1960s under President Kennedy as the Department of Defense (DOD) had to realign its base structure after World War II and the Korean War. At that time, the DOD was able to close bases without congressional interference, and 60 bases were closed in the 1960s.Collection: Sam
The CARFA Act is about accountability in the federal government: making sure that taxpayers are getting their money's worth and not being defrauded. This is a bipartisan concept, and it is worthy of broad support across the Congress.Collection: Sam
Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.Collection: Sam
One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will.Collection: Sam
In the aftermath of September 11, it has been made clear to us that our foreign policy can no longer afford to narrowly focus on short-term benefits. For our nation's long-term security, we must be active in promoting American values abroad through our foreign policy.Collection: Sam
The Founding Fathers of our nation believed in the people. They created a new nation based on the radical notion that the people could be free and trusted - that the nation would be great if you trusted the people to be good.Collection: Sam
Many of Reagan's listeners thought he was dreaming. But Reagan had faith in freedom. He knew that communism, although militarily powerful, was ideologically dead. He knew what our Founders knew: that, in a truly legitimate government, power does not come out of the barrel of a gun, but only from the consent of the people.Collection: Sam
Conservatives sometimes forget that limiting government is not an end in itself but a means to a better society.Collection: Sam
The growth in ethanol and biodiesel is something that I have worked on since I was secretary of agriculture in Kansas. I would like to see a lot more progress, because I think there is a real score to be made on this.Collection: Sam
I support strongly the expansion of nuclear power because that is one of the key ways of getting electricity generated and reducing carbon dioxide emissions.Collection: Sam
I am one who believes that the market, properly incentivized, can consistently outperform government regulation on achieving objectives.Collection: Sam
Budgets are matters of priority and prioritizing. It's a high priority.Collection: Sam
Too often, while well-intentioned, our poverty programs fail the poor. They fail them by keeping them in cycles of dependency.Collection: Sam
The right to keep and bear arms is a right that Kansans hold dear. The people of Kansas have repeatedly and overwhelmingly reaffirmed their commitment to protecting this fundamental right.Collection: Sam
You can raise a good child in a single-parent family, but it's much more difficult.Collection: Sam
My wife and I are raising five children, and it's tough between two people, let alone with one that's working full-time and is stressed out and coming home to a lot of difficulties.Collection: Sam
Culture is more important than politics and government.Collection: Sam
I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.Collection: Sam
I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.Collection: Sam
I think the United Nations is a useful format to discuss matters, but I think it's a weak institution in being able to carry out matters and, in many respects even, it has been harmful on things like human rights.Collection: Sam
I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.Collection: Sam
We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.Collection: Sam
You can write 16 plays and not make as much money as you did doing one movie.Collection: Sam
Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.Collection: Sam
More than anything, falling in love causes a certain female thing in a man to manifest, oddly enough.Collection: Sam
It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.Collection: Sam
I've had it up to my ears with the personal mythology. It's getting kind of personally sickening. The personal stuff just turns out to be misinterpreted. I've had such an earful for so long, it's gotten tedious. I figure if you stay away from it, you're safe.Collection: Sam
I think comedy's harder to pull off on the screen than on the stage, anyway. Tragedy is easier on the screen... oddly enough.Collection: Sam
A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.Collection: Sam
When you're 19 and writing plays, you think every actor is full of it. They just can't handle your brilliant material.Collection: Sam
They say TV has a tendency to diminish actors, and I think that's probably true in the long run - it wears on 'em like bad dental work - but Cheech doesn't show any of the signs of being damaged that way. And as a man, he's fantastic.Collection: Sam
Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.Collection: Sam
In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.Collection: Sam
I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.Collection: Sam
I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there.Collection: Sam