There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war, it's to be prepared for peace.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor.

Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again.

There are only two things that the liberals don't understand: the things that change and the things that don't.

If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

Jesse Helms wants me to move to the right, Lowell Weiker wants me to move to the left, and Teddy Kennedy wants me to move back to California.