Alan Keyes
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"Alan Lee Keyes" is 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 United States Foreign Service/U.S. Foreign Service in 1979 at the United States consulate in Mumbai/Bombay, India, and later in the American embassy in Zimbabwe.

He ran for President of the United States in U.S. presidential election, 1996/1996, U.S. presidential election, 2000/2000, and U.S. presidential election, 2008/2008 (founding and serving as the presidential nominee of the America's Party (political party)/America's Independent Party in 2008), and was a Republican Party (United States)/Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in U.S. Senate election, 1988/1988, U.S. Senate election, 1992/1992, and U.S. Senate election, 2004/2004. Keyes was appointed Ambassador to the UN Economic and Social Council/Economic and Social Council of the United Nations by President of the United States/President Ronald Reagan, and served as Reagan's Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from 1985 to 1987; in his capacities as a UN ambassador, among Keyes's accomplishments was contributing to the Mexico City Policy.

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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.

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.

Is this kind of pointless squabbling really what we want to see? We're talking about electing the president of the United States.

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.

Appeal tonight directly to every American.

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.

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.

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.

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.