Steve Forbes Quotes on America (14 Quotes)

It's one thing to waste our money, to raise our taxes, to burden us with regulations, because we can turn those things around. But it's quite another matter to take the sons and daughters of America and put them in harm's way without thinking the whole thing through.

I am happy to announce the beginning of my campaign for president of the United States of America,

As the American people are learning and will learn, he is a good man. He has been tested -- I tried to test him -- and he emerged the stronger for it.

My campaign, then and today, is a campaign about issues and ideas, never gone in for personalities. It is principles and policies, and that's what I am doing and will continue to do. That's what the people of America want,

By not bringing the American people along, everyone thought it was just an unmitigated bloody disaster.

The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally.

Let me be blunt No mother in the United States of America should be forced to send her child to a lousy school,

it is the first step on putting abortion on the ultimate road to extinction in the United States of America.

The essence of the American dream is the understanding that we are here on this earth and in this land for a higher purpose to discover-and develop to the fullest-our God-given potential. Anything that stands in the way of the dream, we must fight. Anythi

As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.

The political culture envelops people. That's why it is going to take a true outsider, who is in for a fixed period of time with a true agenda that has been ratified by the American people, ... Politics as usual is not going to get the job done on taxes, health care, education, Social Security. It is going to take an independent outsider who has the support of the American people.

Parents -- not politics -- should run education in America.

Is he afraid that the American people will find out what he really stands for, or that he has no vision at all.

If you were doing comic strips you would have the dark cloud above his head, constantly raining. If the morning has a little bit of fog, he'll say fog is descending on America. If the sun is out, he'll say that we're going to get overly sunburned. If it rains, he'll say there are floods coming if it doesn't rain, he'll predict drought. And the fact of the matter is, in terms of the American economy right now, it's in a very strong position.