No one is ever truly ready for life. No one is ready to experience loss, or to be vulnerable with someone, or to fall in love, or to have children, or to go to college, or to be out in the adult world and survive. Being ready? It’s an
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“I have often wondered about a paradox in American government: Every four years, voters elect a president and in California a governor, the only officeholders elected by all the people; then, the same people in their individual districts turn around and elect a legislature and congress that is often controlled by the opposing party, enabling it to prevent the president or governor from carrying out the things they elected him or her to do.”
― An American Life: An Enhanced eBook with CBS Video: The Autobiography
― An American Life: An Enhanced eBook with CBS Video: The Autobiography
“As I have often said, governments don’t produce economic growth, people do. What government can do is encourage Americans to tap their well of ingenuity and unleash their entrepreneurial spirit, then get out of the way.”
― An American Life: An Enhanced eBook with CBS Video: The Autobiography
― An American Life: An Enhanced eBook with CBS Video: The Autobiography
“It reminded me of something that James Madison said in 1788: “Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”
― An American Life: An Enhanced eBook with CBS Video: The Autobiography
― An American Life: An Enhanced eBook with CBS Video: The Autobiography
“Liberty has never come from government,” Woodrow Wilson, one of FDR’s predecessors and another Democrat, said. “The history of liberty is the history of limitation of government’s power, not the increase of it.”
― An American Life: An Enhanced eBook with CBS Video: The Autobiography
― An American Life: An Enhanced eBook with CBS Video: The Autobiography
“I don’t think we’ll solve the problem of the deficit until three things happen: We need more discipline on spending in Congress. We need a constitutional amendment requiring Congress to balance the budget. And we need to give our presidents a line-item veto.”
― An American Life: An Enhanced eBook with CBS Video: The Autobiography
― An American Life: An Enhanced eBook with CBS Video: The Autobiography
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