If there is one instance in which a foreign policy I pursued met with unambiguous failure, it was my policy on German reunification.

Consensus is the absence of leadership.

I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.

If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.

I am not a consensus politician. Im a conviction politician.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

We need a free economy not only for the renewed material prosperity it will bring, but because it is indispensable to individual freedom, human dignity and to a more just, more honest society.