Great Throughts Treasury

"The bigotry question goes both ways. There's a lot more anti-Christian bigotry today than there is concerning the other side. None of it gets covered by the news media."

"The American mission is to help everybody in the planet in the next half-century achieve safety, health, prosperity, and freedom."

"The Declaration of Independence says we are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, among with are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Notice, unlike the welfare state it doesn't guarantee happiness, it doesn't offer happiness stamps, it doesn't suggest the government should pay therapy for those who have not yet found happiness."

"The definition of modern conservatism, which Ronald Reagan achieved, focused on spreading freedom across the planet."

"The classic American is an independent, self-reliant, hard-working, honest person of no great wealth or social status who nonetheless has good sense, great courage, and a fierce love of country."

"The Clintons are counterculture McGovernicks."

"The fact that America speaks does not mean that America dictates. America does have every right to stand up for what America is all about ? that every person on this planet is endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

"The Left tells you about the Constitution every time they want to restrict your rights. If you want to put up a monument to the Ten Commandments, the Left says that?s against the Constitution. As long as the Left dominates, the only time the Constitution is cited is when they are restricting your rights?."

"The goal that the Obama team has is to fundamentally replace the historic America of self-reliance, independence, the work ethic, the people who go out and achieve because they spend their lifetime doing the right things. And they want to replace it with a politician-dominated redistributionist bureaucracy. Which in the essence would mean the end of America as it has been for the last 400 years."

"The Federal government made a Danish heart pump illegal that was used in ambulances that kept 54% of people alive who would otherwise now be dead. Newt Gingrich with another flat out lie to further demonize the government. Official tests of the pump proved it to be of absolutely no benefit whatsoever."

"The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument."

"The meeting between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev was the most dangerous summit for the West since Adolf Hitler met with [Neville] Chamberlain in 1938 in Munich."

"The most serious, systematic revolutionary of modern times."

"The left-wing Democrats will represent the party of total hedonism, total exhibitionism, total bizarreness, total weirdness, and the total right to cripple innocent people in the name of letting hooligans loose."

"The mother killing her two children in South Carolina vividly reminds every American how sick the society is getting and how much we have to have change. I think people want to change, and the only way you get change is to vote Republican."

"The problem isn?t too little money in political campaigns, but not enough."

"The president of the United States, the most radical president in American history, has now thrown down the gauntlet to the American people. He has said, "I run a machine, I own Washington, and there's nothing you can do about it." Now, that's where we are."

"The Republican Party's position should be toleration. It should not be promotion and it should not be condemnation. I don't want to see police in the men's room, which we had when I was a child, and I don't want to see trying to educate kindergarteners in understanding gay couples."

"The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way."

"The U.S. was founded by a group of political leaders who signed a document which says, We are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights. That means that all of your political rights come from God and you then loan some of your power to the State which is why the Constitution begins, We, the People of the United States."

"The Romans had a simple rule: if you want peace, prepare for war. George Washington echoed the same theme as the result of his lifetime struggle for the cause of freedom. Peace through strength will work. Peace through weakness is impossible."

"The secular socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did."

"There are elements on this planet that are actively seeking weapons of mass destruction for the purpose of using them. They speak as openly as Adolph Hitler did about their desire to kill us and we should honor them by believing they're sincere,"

"The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country."

"The welfare state reduces the poor from citizens to clients."

"There's no question that at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate. And what I can tell you is that when I did things that were wrong, I wasn't trapped in situation ethics, I was doing things that were wrong, and yet, I was doing them. I found that I felt compelled to seek God's forgiveness. Not God's understanding, but God's forgiveness. I do believe in a forgiving God. And I think most people, deep down in their hearts hope there's a forgiving God. Somebody once said that when we're young, we seek justice, but as we get older, we seek mercy."

"There?s a large part of me that?s four years old. I wake up in the morning and I know that somewhere there?s a cookie. I don?t know where it is but I know it?s mine and I have to go find it. That?s how I live my life. My life is amazingly filled with fun. ?Newt Gingrich, describing himself in a 2010 Esquire profile"

"There is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us."

"These people are sick. They are so consumed by their own power, by a Mussolini-like ego, that their willingness to run over normal human beings and to destroy honest institutions is unending. Directed toward Democrats, but caught all politicians."

"There's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind."

"This is not one person doing one bad thing. You can't have a corrupt lobbyist unless you have a corrupt member (of Congress) or a corrupt staff. ... This was a team effort."

"They still don?t realize that the appropriation is gone, that the game is over. The power of the Speaker is the power of recognition, and I will not recognize any proposal that will appropriate money for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. What they should be doing is planning for the future."

"This is, by the way, the great? one of the great tragedies of the Bush administration. The more successful they've been at intercepting and stopping bad guys, the less proof there is that we're in danger, and therefore, the better they've done at making sure there isn't an attack, the easier it is to say "well, there was never gonna be an attack anyway". And it's almost like they should every once in a while have allowed an attack to get through just to remind us."

"This is one of the great tragedies of the Bush administration. The more successful they?ve been at intercepting and stopping bad guys, the less proof there is that we?re in danger?. It?s almost like they should every once in a while have allowed an attack to get through just to remind us. Yes, a 2008 quote advocating another terrorist attack on the United States."

"Those of us who believe in free markets and those of us who believe that, in fact, the whole goals of investment is entrepreneurship and job creation, would find it pretty hard to justify rich people figuring out clever, legal ways to loot out a company."

"True compassion is measured by our own good works, not by how many tax dollars we spend to support a failed federal bureaucracy. We've learned that the only way to truly help people is to empower them to help themselves."

"Up to 25% of the White House, when they first came in, had used drugs within the past 4 or 5 years. Newt Gingrich just making stuff up."

"We are the richest society in history, and that's why dreams matter."

"We don't do --you know, we don't do elaborate things. ... Well, go, you go talk to Tiffany's. All I'm telling you is we --We are very frugal. [in response to the revelation that he and his wife once owed between $250,000 and $500,000 in a credit account to the jeweler Tiffany's]"

"We don't we agree that litigation reform to lower the cost of healthcare would be a good starting point?"

"We have 6,000 years of written historical experience in the Judeo-Christian tradition. We know the rules that work. We know that learning, study, working, saving, and commitment are vital. That is why Republicans would replace welfare with work."

"We must expect the Soviet system to survive for a very long time. There will be Soviet labor camps and Soviet torture chambers well into our grandchildren?s lives."

"We need patriotic education. We need to reinstate U.S. history."

"We had oral sex. He prefers that modus operandi because then he can say, 'I never slept with her.'"

"We have to frankly break the back of the secular-socialist machine, elect people committed to representing the American people, and then methodically rip the system apart."

"weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical, and nuclear - are going to change everything in the 21st century and nobody has really come to grips yet with the degree to which we are not dealing with asymmetric warfare,"

"We must replace the welfare state with an opportunity society. Every American is entitled to a life filled with opportunity. After all, we are endowed by are Creator with certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

"We would have won in 1974 if we could have kept him out of the office, screwing her [a young volunteer] on the desk."

"Well, I think it?s pretty clear in the original document, the Declaration of Independence of the Founding Fathers, that we are endowed by our Creator certain inalienable rights which are the rights of liberty, life and the pursuit of happiness. And I think what every listener needs to understand is that in the minds of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and the people who wrote that document, they literally meant that your rights come from God, that you then loan them to the government, which is why the Declaration of Independence begins We the people?. And therefore if we drive God out of the public square we drive out the source of our own rights and our own source of power."

"we should have two requirements for citizenship. You have to learn American history and pass a test about America, and you have to do it in English."