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Our ideals are our better selves.

The people of America need personal responsibility and freedom, not dependency on the government.

It's impossible to consider living without ideals. However, when ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre that we've seen since the beginning of time.

And what my constitutional values are are wholly irrelevant to the job, and so neither you nor anyone else will know what they are.

I created no authority that wasn't already there under the constitution.

I don't write policy for my government.

I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government.

There has never been a time when I was not committed to, involved in, or caring of, the social and political issues of my world.