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

Form and Substance are opposite ends of the same coin.

Education is like a diamond with many facets: It includes the basic mastery of numbers and letters that give us access to the treasury of human knowledge, accumulated and refined through the ages; it includes technical and vocational training as well as instruction in science, higher mathematics, and humane letters.

Liberals are people who think that being tough on crime means longer suspended sentences.

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)

We have consistently supported a legalization program which is both generous to the alien and fair to the countless thousands of people throughout the world who seek legally to come to America. The legalization provisions in this act will go far to improve the lives of a class of individuals who now must hide in the shadows, without access to many of the benefits of a free and open society. Very soon many of these men and women will be able to step into the sunlight and, ultimately, if they choose, they may become Americans.

I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales.