I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves.

Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.

Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?

How can a president not be an actor?

Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few, but the universal right of all God's children.

If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. But if you provide a child with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that you're liable to be given more money to do it with. Well, we've discovered that money alone isn't the answer.

Through the history of our nation, Americans have always extended their hands in gestures of assistance.