I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service.

The pressure of special interests, the demands of special sections of the state, the needs of friends, all must be subordinated to the good of the people as a whole.

We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance.

We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life.

The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.

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Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship.

Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.