You don't have a right to a house, you don't have a right to a job, you don't have a right to medical care.

When one person can initiate war, by its definition, a republic no longer exists.

Only in a free society do individuals have the best chance to seek virtue, strive for excellence, improve their economic well-being, and achieve personal happiness. The worthy goals of civilization can only be achieved by freedom-loving individuals. When government uses force, liberty is sacrificed and the goals are lost. It is freedom that is the source of all creative energy.

All rights are individual. We do not get our rights because we belong to a group. Whether it's homosexuals, women, minorities, it leads us astray. You don't get your rights belonging to your group. A group can't force themselves on anybody else. So there should be no affirmative action for any group.

You know, freedom is a very popular idea, and young people love it, and they're open to ideas. And they like principled answers to our problems.

It’s not part of our Constitution to assume that we are the world’s policemen.

Why is it that some people, you know, think we should obey the Constitution sometimes and not other times.