Our goals are the same as those of the U.N.'s founders, who sought to replace a world at war with one where the rule of law would prevail, where human rights were honored, where development would blossom, where conflict would give way to freedom from violence.

I am not a scientist.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

You know economists; they're the sort of people who see something works in practice and wonder if it would work in theory.

We are going to put an end to the notion that the American taxpayer exists to fund the Federal Government.

After watching the State of the Union address the other night [1994], I'm reminded of the old adage that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Only in this case, it's not flattery, but grand larceny: the intellectual theft of ideas that you and I recognize as our own. Speech delivery counts for little on the world stage unless you have convictions, and, yes, the vision to see beyond the front row seats.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.