While other [military] alliances have been formed to win wars, our fundamental purpose is to prevent war while preserving and extending the frontiers of freedom.

If we get the federal government out of the classroom, maybe we'll get God back in.

There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.

The White House is the leakiest place I've ever been in. (On special measures to ensure secrecy of plans to bomb Libya)

Let us ask ourselves; "What kind of people do we think we are?"

And there is the matter of abortion. We must with calmness and resolve help the vast majority of our fellow Americans understand that the more than 112 million abortions performed in America in 1980 amount to a great moral evil, an assault on the sacredness of human life.

What is important is that one strives to achieve a goal.