Political Quotes

“I cannot quite understand why it is that there is this sense. We are pulling the folks who for many years fought against the balanced budget and tax cuts a lot of the way, but I guess I am not convinced we have changed their hearts yet. Maybe we will get there. But what I do not understand is what this sense is that somehow the Government will have less and the people will have more. See, I think that is a good thing, if the government has less and the people have more. I think it is a good thing if the Government has less power and the people have more power. Now, there are all kinds of ways we can give people their power. We can give them a right to send their kids where they want to go to school without the Government trying to tell them where they ought to go. We could actually let the housing authority in Chicago decide that if they want to check the residents to see if they have got guns in their place, they should be allowed to do that. We ought to set the rules that we want in our housing authorities and the communities we live. I think that is pretty good. I think we ought to let people have more choice on the kind of health care they want to have.”