Political Quotes

“Mr. President, in the midst of President Johnson's ``Great Society,'' Ronald Reagan explained that our Nation had arrived at a crossroads, at a time for choosing. The choice, Reagan explained, was ``whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far- distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan it for ourselves.'' Forty years later, our Nation once again finds itself at a crossroads. Government is getting larger and larger. Spending is out of control, and a little intellectual elite, in a far distant capital, is trying harder than ever to plan the lives of the American people. Even basic choices about how we care for our own health are now made by career bureaucrats whose names Americans will never hear and whose faces they will never see. Our Nation has a choice to make. We either restore or relinquish our great heritage of limited constitutional government. Part of that choice will be made here today. Part of that choice will be made as we consider the nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. In recent years, the progressive wing of the Supreme Court has offered opinions that would have denied Americans their right to keep and bear arms, and severely diminish the right to free speech during election time.…”