I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed in their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is "needed" before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible.

Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.

Once upon a time our traditional goal in war and can anyone doubt that we are at war? - was victory. Once upon a time we were proud of our strength, our military power. Now we seem ashamed of it. Once upon a time the rest of the world looked to us for leadership. Now they look to us for a quick handout and a fence-straddling international posture.

We shall return to proven ways - not because they are old, but because they are true.

I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.

We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.

If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.