Alan Keyes
Alan Keyes
Alan Lee Keyesis an American conservative political activist, author, former diplomat, and perennial candidate for public office. A doctoral graduate of Harvard University, Keyes began his diplomatic career in the U.S. Foreign Service in 1979 at the United States consulate in Bombay, India, and later in the American embassy in Zimbabwe...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRadio Host
Date of Birth7 August 1950
CityLong Island, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Is this kind of pointless squabbling really what we want to see? We're talking about electing the president of the United States.
I know who I'm voting for, and I'm not disclosing that.
He refused to take into account the sensitivity of the black people of South Carolina on that flag.
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.
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.
I wish I could applaud all of you in the media for such fairness, ... But I certainly can't.
The act of voting is one opportunity for us to remember that our whole way of life is predicated on the capacity of ordinary people to judge carefully and well.
Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our hands.
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.
When we surrender moral government to the courts, we have surrendered the very essence of freedom, we have surrendered its only real meaning--and we will not be free again until we get it back.
It is the absence of bars that makes a beast free - but only the truth can make a man free.
I accept the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, to represent the State of Illinois.
[T]he great American statesman devotes his energy, ability, and wisdom to conforming himself and this people to the moral principles that gave this nation birth, are older than anything else in the country's soul, and yet retain the power to make us young again with the vigor of virtue and the zeal for justice.