When the Lord calls me home, whenever that may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this county of ours and eternal optimism for its future.

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

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

The person who pays an ounce of principle for a pound of popularity gets badly cheated.

I've talked to you on a number of occasions about the economic problems our nation faces, and I am prepared to tell you it's in a hell of a mess-we're not connected to the press room yet, are we?

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

We've gone astray from first principles. We've lost sight of the rule that individual freedom and ingenuity are at the very core of everything that we've accomplished. Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.