A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.

Speaker, with mixed emotions we mark the 50th anniversary of the Turkish genocide of the Armenian people. In taking notice of the shocking events in 1915, we observe this anniversary with sorrow in recalling the massacres of Armenians and with pride in saluting those brave patriots who survived to fight on the side of freedom during World War I.

We . . . declared our independence 200 years ago, and we are not about to lose it now to paper shufflers and computers.

I have always felt that the real purpose of government is to enhance the lives of people and that a leader can best do that by restraining government in most cases instead of enlarging it at every opportunity.

I watch a lot of baseball on the radio.

I just don't think we should go hellfire damnation around the globe freeing people, unless it is directly related to our own national security.