Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest.

Today it is difficult to find leaders who are independent of the forces that have brought us our problems: The Congress, the bureaucracy, the lobbyists, big business, and big labor.

I don't know why anyone would want to study the expansion of the universe.

I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation that anyone's child, even from the humblest of families, could grow up to own a business or corporation.

Republicans believe the best way to assure prosperity is to generate more jobs. The Democrats believe in more welfare.

Unless and until it can be proven that an unborn child is not a living human being, can we justify assuming without proof that it isn't? No one has yet offered such proof; indeed, all the evidence is to the contrary.

Excellence does not begin in Washington.