Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.

It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp.

If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.

For decades, we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children's future for the temporary convenience of the present. To continue this long trend is to guarantee tremendous social, cultural, political, and economic upheavals. You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. Why, then, should we think that collectively, as a nation, we are not bound by that same limitation?

Young Americans must never again be sent to fight and die unless we are prepared to let them win.

...100% of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the Federal Debt...all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services taxpayers expect from government.

Even now I wonder what I might have accomplished if I'd studied harder