When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.

I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.

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.

The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.

I played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.

We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.