By 1980, we knew it was time to renew our faith, to strive with all our strength toward the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with an orderly society. We believed then and now there are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow their dreams.

For too long, the victims of crime have been the forgotten persons of our criminal justice system.

Nations do not distrust each other because they are armed. They are armed because they distrust each other.

There's no question I am an idealist, which is another way of saying 'I am an American.'

I just don't think it's good for us to be run out of town. (Refusing to cancel Secretary of State visit to Moscow)

I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom.

No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income.