Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process.

The task that has fallen to us as Americans is to move the conscience of the world, to keep alive the hope and dream of freedom. For if we fail or falter, there'll be no place for the world's oppressed to flee to. This is not a role we sought. We preach no manifest destiny. But like the Americans who brought a new nation into the world 200 years ago, history has asked much of us in our time. Much we've already given; much more we must be prepared to give.

Do what's right and you'll please some of the people and astound the rest.

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense.

I notice that all of the people who support abortion are already born.

We've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion, but what's important.