At home, we must reject the mistaken notion - a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long - that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem.

When the death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt thrust him suddenly into the Presidency in April of 1945 at one of the most critical moments of our history, he met that moment with courage and vision. His farsighted leadership in the postwar era has helped ever since to preserve peace and freedom in the world.

Because the public lands belong to all Americans, this 1872 Mining Act should be repealed.

History is a pathetic junkyard of broken treaties.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got.

I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he's an American child.