The only law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown.

We are going to make sure that America is open to legal immigration because that is wealth and the talent and the entrepreneurial skills for the 21st Century.

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

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

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

Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.

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