“Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Indepe...” — Paul Ryan Quote

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.

We are in a global economy whether we like it or not. And we believe - I believe - that America should be at the table writing the rules of the global economy instead of China.

Our two party platforms were emphatic about Jerusalem being the capital of Israel. For the Obama administration to remove this language from the Democratic Party platform drives a wedge into one of the few issues that our two parties agreed on.

Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth.

I have an interesting perspective on depending on others. I think it gives people a chance to serve. And I'm not so much big on independence, as I am on interdependence. I'm not talking about co-dependency, I'm talking about giving people the opportunity to practicing love with its sleeves rolled up.

I think it eminently proper that a president should retire from active politics, and equally proper that he should be able to live in quiet independence.

To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence.

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.