Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole and not that of any one class.
By and large mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men but they do not form a class.
All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartended for two months before I was supposed to move to New York and then two months later I got the job as an understudy in 'Sister Act' and haven't looked back since.
One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class which is why I don't often do them.
Remember half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games I won a gold medal.
We are the ones looking out for the middle class. Who do think pays for the endless expansion of government? Its middle class taxpayers. Our reforms protect middle class taxpayers.
No way no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems.
We've got a first class leader at the moment. David Cameron is dealing with the issues that he was left by the last government very well indeed.
All too often government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out containing problems and limiting the damage but in doing so supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.
In any crass political calculation drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations.
I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty to help build a strong middle class to help educate our kids and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.