Two visions of the world remain locked in dispute. The first believes all men are created equal by a loving God who has blessed us with freedom. The second vision believes that religion is opium for the masses. It believes that eternal principles like truth, liberty, and democracy have no meaning beyond the whim of the state. And [Vladimir] Lenin spoke for them.

If you can't summarize an issue on one page, you don't understand the issue well enough.

I know all the bad things that happened in that war. I was in uniform four years myself.

We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American dream that wealth is denied to no one, that each individual has the right to fly as high as his strength and ability will take him.

I believe the highest aspiration of man should be individual freedom and the development of the individual.

Detente - isn't that what a farmer has with his turkey - until Thanksgiving?

We have to realize that this country in its private sector has been fighting the most successful war on poverty the world has seen for the last 200 years.