The legal system we have and the rule of law are far more responsible for our traditional liberties than any system of one man one vote. Any country or Government which wants to proceed towards tyranny starts to undermine legal rights and undermine the law.

The election of a man committed to the cause of freedom and the renewal of America's strength has given encouragement to all those who love liberty.

When hecklers stand up, I get a mental jump for joy. It gives me something to get my teeth into - and the audiences love it.

If someone is confronting our essential liberties, if someone is inflicting injuries and harm, by God I'll confront them!

I applaud strong government, but not overweening government sustained by cronies, ciphers and a personality cult.

Of course you have a duty to show the disfigurations of society as well as its more agreeable aspects. But if TV in the western world uses its freedom continually to show all that is worst in our society, while the centrally controlled television of the Communist world and the dictatorships show only what is judged advantageous to them and suppress everything else, how are the uncommitted to judge between us? How can they fail to misjudge if they view matters only through a distorted mirror?

Please don't use the word tough. People might get the impression that I don't care. And I do care, very deeply. Resilient, I think.