February 20, 2026
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Interview with Jerry Leeman: Today we bring you a story about a handful of fishermen rallying against a billion-dollar green industrial project, shady foreign corporations, and our own federal and state government. All are conspiring to generate a cash cow for...
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004Read more
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968Read more
The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004Read more
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968Read more
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004Read more
If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968Read more
Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004Read more
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968Read more
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004Read more
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968Read more
Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004Read more
I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968Read more
I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004Read more
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968Read more
Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004Read more
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968Read more
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth! -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004Read more
I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968Read more
Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression. -Eleanor Roosevelt October 11, 1884 - November 7, 1962Read more
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004Read more