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.

When democratic governments create economic calamity, free markets get the blame.

Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.

We must win the war on poverty by enlisting the greatest weapon ever invented - free enterprise

Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit.

The chance to own a home; chance to own an education; chance to get access to capital. This is the real civil rights battle of the twenty-first century.

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.