I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day.

Throughout our history, We Americans have been willing to meet great challenges and do what is right when our destiny demanded it.

I oppose registration for the draft... because I believe the security of freedom can best be achieved by security through freedom.

We believe faith and freedom must be our guiding stars, for they show us truth, they make us brave, give us hope, and leave us wiser than we were.

Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or economically as the private sector.

This democracy of ours, which sometimes we've treated so lightly, is more than ever a comfortable cloak, so let us not tear it asunder, for no man knows, once it is destroyed, where or when he will find its protective warmth again.

We have consistently supported a legalization program which is both generous to the alien and fair to the countless thousands of people throughout the world who seek legally to come to America. The legalization provisions in this act will go far to improve the lives of a class of individuals who now must hide in the shadows, without access to many of the benefits of a free and open society. Very soon many of these men and women will be able to step into the sunlight and, ultimately, if they choose, they may become Americans.