Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.

The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.

Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.

Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.

I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.

The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.