East and West, most societies have come to believe that competition will produce more prosperity for more people than a planned economy. I share that belief.

With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.

We Americans have a sense of ourselves as a moral people. We have led the way in the fight for human rights in the world. Mistreating prisoners makes the world see our moral claims as hypocrisy.

The Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders, in open court before an international tribunal, had a profound long-term effect in bringing Germans back to democracy and humanity.

Business creates jobs; government does not. Government creates a whole slew of jobs each time a new program or scheme is implemented, but always at the expense of the taxpayer. Small businesses invest in new businesses, which results in more jobs.

The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during the period of slavery but also in the Jim Crow era that followed.

As policy makers, Congress has the power to promote public policies that economically empower single parents and drastically reduce childhood poverty.

This is quite public knowledge. The South African government has said they're doing it. They've started seizing their first couple hundred farms.