Alan Keyes Quotes (28 Quotes)

Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients.

reminder of the tragic consequences of the moral void that is threatening our young people.

It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family.

We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts.

Some people want to pretend we don't have an adversarial political system, but we do, ... We should not only tolerate it, we should encourage that kind of debate.

It isn't a free speech issue it's a matter of public decency.

Our first responsibility is not to ourselves. Our first responsibility is to our country and to our God.

Our Character, Our Future Reclaiming America's Moral Destiny.

He refused to take into account the sensitivity of the black people of South Carolina on that flag.

We need to get rid of the 16th amendment, and return to the original system that funds government with a variety of tariffs and duties.

When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

It's time for courage to be restored -- not by leaders like G.W. Bush, but by people like you.

I don't think that has to be our choice... This party was born in principle. This party will die if it doesn't stand by its decision of principle.

I wish I could applaud all of you in the media for such fairness, ... But I certainly can't.

Christ would not vote for Barack Obama, because Barack Obama has voted to behave in a way that it is inconceivable for Christ to have behaved.

This is the advantage of having a candidate knowing where he stands on the issues,

according to conscience and principle and nothing else.

I don't think the question is whether China should belong to the World Trade Organization. I believe the question is whether the United States should belong to an organization that violates every constitutional principle,

The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.

I think if G.W. Bush or (John) McCain or anybody like them, if they are the nominees, we're gonna get so badly slaughtered we won't even know what hit us because the American people want to see the issues of character and moral integrity addressed.

For liberty, we need a respected judiciary. For the sake of preserving our liberty, we need to insist that the courts begin again to deserve the respect from a free people that makes their work possible. Bringing such discipline to the judiciary is, at bottom, a political task. It is one more essential job that only a principled and vigilant citizenry can accomplish.

we shouldn't substitute air power for cooperation.

Preferential affirmative action patronizes American blacks, women, and others by presuming that they cannot succeed on their own. Preferential affirmative action does not advance civil rights in this country.

The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.

I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God.

One individual doesn't really accept the pro-life position of the party, and the other... says he supports it and takes a position that is logically inconsistent.

I think it will indicate that there are a lot of people in Iowa and around the country who will believe in the message of moral principles.

If we would let God into our schools under normal circumstances, then we probably wouldn't have to see our children turn to God when faced with this kind of evil,