The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.

Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.

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.

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

The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.

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

I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.