We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody.
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Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.
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Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.
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Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.
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In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.
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My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep.
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We need a complete ban on soft money, which is sort of an enveloping problem, and a ceiling on the amount of money that can be spent on a given race.
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I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well.
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The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts.
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If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability _ economic, political and social.
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