I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don't hurt anyone else in the process.

Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

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

The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.

I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.