The Left regards the Constitution as defective and outmoded - in part because it impedes the government's ability to control institutions like churches and families which stand between the state and individuals.
As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea the belief that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.
The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.
The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil that there must be opposition between its various branches and between political parties for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.
People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.
I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949 and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.
Our laws governing lobbying and campaign contributions have struck the right balance between the wishes of the people and those of private industry so why are we so quick to doubt that the same great results can be achieved by putting the government's justice-dealing branch on the same market-based course?
Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.
The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that in the dinner the sweets come last.
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Religion to me is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.
To judge between good or bad between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation but deeds can be done only for God.
Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness a covenant between radically different persons male and female and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen a covenant between radically different partners.
The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.
Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.