The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, thats not equity, its just creating a society where you cant ask anything of people. – Jacques Delors
The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are. – David Dinkins
Watching President Obama apologize last week for Americas arrogance – before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans – helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions. – Rick Santorum
The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state. – William Scranton
