We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.

When consumers purchase more goods, plants use more of their capacity, men are hired instead of laid off, investment increases, and profits are high. Corporate tax rates must also be cut to increase incentives and the availability of investment capital.

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive

Our present tax system ... exerts too heavy a drag on growth ... It reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment, and risk-taking ... The present tax load ... distorts economic judgments and channels an undue amount of energy into efforts to avoidtaxliabilities.

Those [presidents] who were strongest intellectually were also strongest spiritually.

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.