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I Have Little Interest In Streamlining Government Or In Making It More Efficient, For I Mean To Reduce Its Size. I Do Not Undertake To Promote Welfare, For I Propose To Extend Freedom. My Aim Is Not To Pass Laws, But To Repeal Them. It Is Not To Inaugurate New Programs, But To Cancel Old Ones That Do Violence To The Constitution, Or That Have Failed In Their Purpose, Or That Impose On The People An Unwarranted Financial Burden. I Will Not Attempt To Discover Whether Legislation Is "needed" Before I Have First Determined Whether It Is Constitutionally Permissible.

I Am A Conservative Republican, But I Believe In Democracy And The Separation Of Church And State. The Conservative Movement Is Founded On The Simple Tenet That People Have The Right To Live Life As They Please As Long As They Don't Hurt Anyone Else In The Process.

Social And Cultural Change, However Desirable, Should Not Be Effected By The Engines Of National Power. Let Us, Through Persuasion And Education, Seek To Improve Institutions We Deem Defective. But Let Us, In Doing So, Respect The Orderly Processes Of The Law. Any Other Course Enthrones Tyrants And Dooms Freedom.

To My Mind The Single Essential Element On Which All Discoveries Will Be Dependent Is Human Freedom.

Religious Factions Will Go On Imposing Their Will On Others Unless The Decent People Connected To Them Recognize That Religion Has No Place In Public Policy. They Must Learn To Make Their Views Known Without Trying To Make Their Views The Only Alternatives.