America's leadership is essential. America's resources are vast. America's opportunities are unprecedented.

Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

We are bound together by the most powerful of all ties, our fervent love for freedom and independence, which knows no homeland but the human heart.

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 hope never to see the day that I cannot admit having made a mistake.

Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life.

Government exists to create and preserve conditions in which people can translate their ideas into practical reality. In the best of times, much is lost in translation. But we try.