I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source; where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials; and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.

The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.

It is time for a new generation of leadership.

The processes of growth are gradual, bearing fruit in a decade, not a day.

A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget.

This knowledge, the knowledge that the physical well-being of the citizen is an important foundation for all of the activities of the nation, is as old as Western civilization itself.

American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive,always growing, always unfinished.