Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away.

The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid.

That foreign trade should be fair rather than free.

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.

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.

There are some things that you can always bet on. One is that when Congress comes up with a new program it never works right over the long haul. Another is, when Congress goes to fix the mess it has made the mess only gets worse.

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