Occupation: Former U.S. Representative Birth: August 20, 1935
Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism..
The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the writings of our Founding Fathers….
I wouldn't vote against getting rid of the Jim Crow laws..
Everybody complains about pork, but members of Congress keep spending because voters do not throw them out of office for doing so. The rotten system ….
No one talks about the real ethics disaster in Washington. It's that many members of Congress will listen to any argument against a bill except for t….
Astonishingly, American taxpayers now will be forced to finance a multi-billion dollar jobs program in Iraq. Suddenly the war is about jobs. We expor….
Spain has been massively diverting capital from the private sector into politically favored environmental projects for the better part of a decade...….
When you have war, whether it's a war against drugs, war against terrorism, war overseas, the mentality of the people change and they're more willing….
The catch-all phrase "the war on terrorism", in all honesty, has no more meaning than if one wants to wage a war against "criminal gangsterism". Terr….
Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks three days after rioting began. ... What if the chec….
What else do we need to know about the political establishment than that it refuses to discuss the crimes that terrify Americans on grounds that doin….
If I were in Congress in 1996, I would have voted for the Defense of Marriage Act, which used Congress's constitutional authority to define what offi….
Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimisti….
Aggression and forced redistribution of wealth has nothing to do with the teachings of the world's great religions..
It would help the poor people who need jobs. Minimum wage is a mandate. We're against mandates so why should we have it? It would be very beneficial..
In a free society we're supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, then we're in big trouble. And now, people who are reve….
But let it not be said that we did nothing. Let not those who love the power of the welfare/warfare state label the dissenters of authoritarianism as….
Given the inefficiencies of what DC laughingly calls the 'criminal justice system,' I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males i….
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Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of ….
When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow ….