"If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost."
"The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense."
"The Government is here to serve, but it cannot replace individual service. And shouldn't all of us who are public servants also set an example of service as private citizens?"
"The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States."
"The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much."
"I personally don't believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending, either one, until we get this economy off the ground. I'll pay more, but it won't solve the problem."
"I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class."
"The Government is here to serve, but it cannot replace individual service. So, I want to ask all of you ... to do what so many of you already do: to reach out and lend a hand."
"Government can spend money, but it can’t put a sense of purpose in our lives. This is done by churches & synagogues & mosques & charities."
"We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible. "
"Are the children learning? And if they are, we ought to give bonuses to schools for the poorest of the poor. But if they’re not, if the poorest of the poor remain in trapped schools, that money that would go to the school should go to the parent so the parent gets to make a different choice."
"Are we doing a good enough job teaching our children what America is and what she represents? We've got to do a better job of getting across that America is freedom--freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise."
"And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation."
"Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone."
"But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. "
"Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people."
"There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect."
"No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might - but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them."
"We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky."
