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Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, "Thank God, I'm still alive." But, of
course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.
- Barbara Boxer, Senator
"You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big
men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer.
You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. You
cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot establish security on borrowed money. You cannot
build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for
them what they could and should do for themselves." --William Boetcker
"Our nation will someday soon reawaken to acknowledge what makes America such a prosperous
nation. It was the recognition of God's ultimate authority, affirmed for us by our Founding Fathers in the Declaration of
Independence, that helped us to overcome the terrible injustice of slavery, the devastation of the Great Depression, and the
grave threat of communism. And it is the sincere belief in this single ideal that will see us through our current state of
social insecurity." --Gary Bauer
"If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies
will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. But if you provide a child with a rotten education, nothing happens,
except that you're liable to be given more money to do it with. Well, we've discovered that money alone isn't the answer."
--Ronald Reagan
"First of all, the Left does not accept the proposition that other people have just
as many rights as they do. This is obvious not only in the disorder and vandalism they inflict in the streets but also their
intolerance on academic campuses across the country, where students who question the party line are hemmed in by speech codes
and ridiculed and intimidated by professors who do not hesitate to punish them with low grades. Ask any environmental extremist
if people who don't care about preserving swamps ('wetlands') have the same rights under the Constitution that the people
in the green movement have. Gay activists who demand tolerance and sensitivity from others do not hesitate to include in their
parades insulting skits mocking nuns and others in the Catholic Church. When pro-life demonstrators tried to hold a peaceful
march in San Francisco on January 22, the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, a pro-abortion crowd not only followed them, shouting
to drown them out and hurling insults at them, some sat down in their path to block the march and force them to detour. We
are seeing the ugly face of intolerance under the idealistic pretense of protest. We need to recognize it for what it is,
even if the media refuse to do so. Above all, we need to see it as a warning of where our society is headed. Whether at home
or abroad, if political conflicts are reduced to contests between the wimps and the barbarians, the barbarians are going to
win." --Thomas Sowell
"Some members of Congress will claim that the federal government needs the power
to monitor Americans in order to allow the government to operate more efficiently. I would remind my colleagues that, in a
constitutional republic, the people are never asked to sacrifice their liberties to make the jobs of government officials
easier. We are here to protect the freedom of the American people, not to make privacy invasion more efficient. Mr. Speaker,
while I do not question the sincerity of those members who suggest that Congress can ensure that citizens' rights are protected
through legislation restricting access to personal information, the only effective privacy protection is to forbid the federal
government from mandating national identifiers. Legislative 'privacy protections' are inadequate to protect the liberty of
Americans. ... Any action short of repealing laws authorizing privacy violations is insufficient primarily because the federal
government lacks constitutional authority to force citizens to adopt a universal identifier for health care, employment, or
any other reason. Any federal action that oversteps constitutional limitations violates liberty because it ratifies the principle
that the federal government, not the Constitution, is the ultimate judge of its own jurisdiction over the people. ... National
identifiers threaten all Americans by exposing them to the threat of identity theft by private criminals and abuse of their
liberties by public criminals, while diverting valuable law enforcement resources away from addressing real threats to public
safety. In addition, national identifiers are incompatible with a limited, constitutional government. I, therefore, hope my
colleagues will join my efforts to protect the freedom of their constituents by supporting the Identity Theft Prevention Act."
--Rep. Ron Paul
"America was founded by men and women who shared a vision of the value of each and every individual. Our forebears
strove to build a nation in which the dignity of every person was respected and the rights of all were secure. Our laws have
sought to foster and protect human life at all its stages. Legal acceptance of abortion imperils this cherished tradition.
By permitting the destruction of unborn children throughout the term of pregnancy, our laws have brought about an inestimable
loss of human life and potential. Yet the tragedy of abortion extends beyond the loss of the nearly 17 million children who
have been robbed of the gift of life. This tragedy is multifaceted -- inflicting emotional harm on women, denying prospective
adoptive couples the joy of sharing their loving homes with children, and eroding respect for the most fundamental of rights,
the right to life. No cause is more important than restoring respect for this right because the freedoms we hold so dear cannot
endure as long as some lives are regarded as unworthy of protection. Nor can our commitment to defend the dignity of all persons
survive if we remain indifferent to the destruction of 1.5 million children each year in the United States. ... If America
is to remain what God, in His wisdom, intended for it to be -- a refuge, a safe haven for those seeking human rights -- then
we must once again extend the most basic human right to the most vulnerable members of the human family." --Ronald Reagan
"The idea that government doesn't grant rights is offensive to those who wish to control our lives. Therefore,
to gain greater control, the idea of natural rights, God-given rights and Christian values must be suppressed. The idea that
rights precede government was John Locke's natural law philosophy, which had a significant influence on our nation's founders,
but they chose to refer to natural law as rights endowed by the Creator. The attack on Christian ideas and Christian public
displays is part and parcel of the Leftist control agenda in another way. Certain components of the Leftist agenda require
that our primary allegiance be with government. As such, there must be an attack on allegiances to the teachings of the church
and family. After all, for example, if you want popular acceptance of homosexual marriages, there must be a campaign against
church teachings that condemn such practices. Emboldened by their successes in the courts and intimidation of public officials,
Leftists will no doubt make other demands; there's no logical end point except complete Christian capitulation. There are
Christian symbols and exhibits in many Washington, DC, government buildings that will come down, such as: Moses with the Ten
Commandments inside the U.S. Supreme Court, George Washington praying in the Capitol Building, Abraham Lincoln's speech mentioning
God carved inside the Lincoln Memorial. Religious programming on the radio and television will come under attack. After all,
there's Federal Communications Commission permission to use the 'public airwaves.' If Leftists say they have no such intention
to go after television, radio and other public expressions of Christianity, what they really mean is that they haven't softened
us up enough yet. I'm not quite sure of just how we should respond to the ongoing attack on Christianity and American values,
but we'd better do something quickly." --Walter Williams
"Politicians have a field day misleading Americans who, as a result of having been dumbed down
by our education system, can't think, reason or analyze." --Walter Williams
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