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

The Federal role in overcoming barriers to needed health care should emphasize health care financing programs-such as Medicare and Medicaid.

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

It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.

To me, the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency were not prizes to be won, but a duty to be done.

Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?... Let us show that we can temper together those opposite elements of liberty and restraint into one consistent whole. Let us set an example for the world of a law-abiding America glorying in its freedom as well as its respect for law.

The length of one's days matters less than the love of one's family and friends.