Today neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of States' Rights. The 10th Amendment is not a 'general assumption' but a rule of law. States rights mean that states have a right to act or not to act, as they see fit, in areas reserved to them.

Having spent 37 years of my life in the military as a reservist, and never having met a gay in all of that time, and never having even talked about it in all those years, I just thought, why the hell shouldn't they serve? They're American citizens. As long as they're not doing things that are harmful to anyone else... So I came out for it.

Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.

To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: "One can disagree without being disagreeable."