When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.

T]he state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

We are not a warlike people. Nor is our history filled with tales of aggressive adventures and imperialism, which might come as a shock to some of the placard painters in our modern demonstrations. The lesson of Vietnam, I think, should be that never again will young Americans be asked to fight and possibly die for a cause unless that cause is so meaningful that we, as a nation, pledge our full resources to achieve victory as quickly as possible.

America needs jobs and opportunity, not make-work and handouts.

I have a feeling that we are doing better in the war than the people have been told.