You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth.

And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was 8 years ago. But more than that: After 200 years, two centuries, she still stands strong and true on the granite ridge, and her glow has held steady no matter what storm. And she's still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home.

One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

Marijuana is probably the most dangerous drug in America today.

It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.

Over hundred years ago Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act. There was wide distribution of land and they didn't confiscate anyone's privately owned land... We need an industrial Homestead Act.

Trains are not any more energy efficient than the average automobile, with both getting about 48 passenger miles to the gallon.