I believe that communism is another sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages even now are being written. I believe this because the source of our strength in the quest for human freedom is not material, but spiritual. And because it knows no limitation, it must terrify and ultimately triumph over those who would enslave their fellow men.

I do not feel betrayed. ... He has a fine record. He is a national hero. (On Oliver L North's work)

Government should uphold-and not undermine-those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above all, family.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.

I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever unless you do something to starve it.

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

America has never gotten in a war because we were too strong.