What's happening in Cuba is not a failure of the Cuban people. It's a failure of Fidel Castro and the Communists.

Our country is great because it is built on principles of self-reliance, opportunity, innovation, and compassion for others.

The difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks.

I hope Americans will read and study the Bible in the coming year. It's my firm belief that the enduring values, as I say, presented in its pages have a great meaning for each of us and for our nation.

Government is not the answer to the problem - it IS the problem.

Never let the things you can't do, stop you from doing what you can.

I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves.