We must have the attitude that every child in America - regardless of where they're raised or how they're born - can learn.

I don't want nations feeling like that they can bully ourselves and our allies. I want to have a ballistic defense system so that we can make the world more peaceful, and at the same time I want to reduce our own nuclear capacities to the level commiserate with keeping the peace.

How can you possibly have an international agreement that's effective unless countries like China and India are not full participants?

The Geneva Convention . . . says that there will be no outrages upon human dignity. It’s very vague. What does that mean, ‘outrages upon human dignity’?

I think whoever is the president [he] must guard your liberties, must not erode your rights in America.

We go forward with complete confidence in the eventual triumph of freedom. Not because history runs on the wheels of inevitability; it is human choices that move events. Not because we consider ourselves a chosen nation; God moves and chooses as He wills.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.