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

All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.

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

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.

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

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.

Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it.