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The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

There's nothing to be said for opposition. You can only talk about things and you can lay your plans. You can't actually achieve very much; you have to be in government for that.

In Washington, particularly, the loyal opposition has a job to be the opposition. But you can't stop there.

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

When it's for the good of your state, you put partisan differences aside.

There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own.

One state can't set everything right, but here in Arizona, we can set an example for the rest of the country in how those of us in elected office conduct ourselves and interact with each other and our constituents.

The opposition may have the right to doubt every thing, but for myself, I call on opposition to practice its role within limits of objectively, responsibility and country interests.

If you have small-government, traditional values, you may be considered by your own leadership to be an enemy of the state.

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.