To me, conservative means believing in a minimum amount of government and a maximum amount of freedom - and keeping government out of people's lives and business - and leaving people alone.

The best thing going for us is Al Gore. I cannot conceive how the American people could elect him. On the other hand, I couldn't conceive how they could elect a Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton - especially Clinton in '96.

If you make one word out of 'The IRS' it spells 'theirs.'

I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important aspect of our lives.

A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote.

I'm not a social friend of the Reagans. That's by their choice and by mine. They don't drink enough.

Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life.