I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.

Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people that we have a responsibility to find our common ground to seek it and to find it.

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.

Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.

What the government has to do if it wants to govern for any length of time is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it.

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.

By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms we will make our government simpler smaller and smarter.

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 instant formal government is abolished society begins to act. A general association takes place and common interest produces common security.

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.

This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest logic loses. So expect more meaningless if not harmful 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.

Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

I am confident that in the end common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story you get to see the good people live happily ever after.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

It is common for those that are farthest from God to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.

Earth's crammed with heaven And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

That future depends on the values of self-government our sense of duty loyalty self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse country and getting more diverse. And these virtues are what keep this great country together.

Because the time has come well and truly come for all peoples of our great country for all citizens of our great commonwealth for all Australians - those who are indigenous and those who are not - to come together to reconcile and together build a new future for our nation.

The euro is our common fate and Europe is our common future.

We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils but the present are commonly too hard for it.

We have a close unshakable bond between the United States and Israel and between the American and Israeli people. We share common values and a commitment to a democratic future for the world and we are both committed to a two-state solution. But that doesn't mean that we're going to agree.