The only valid test of leadership is the ability to lead, and lead vigorously.

Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults.

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put up a wall to keep our people in.

The credit of success is claimed by all, while a disaster is attributed to one alone.

An across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes ... to expand the incentives and opportunities of private expenditures.

I think it is appropriate that we pay tribute to this great constitutional principle which is enshrined in the First Amendment of the Constitution: the principle of religious independence, of religious liberty, of religious freedom.