For a time, we forgot the American dream isn't one of making government bigger, it's keeping faith with the mighty spirit of free people under God

If we miss this chance to make a fresh start, we may look back on this moment from some later vantage point and realize how much that failure cost us all.

They don't worship at the altar of forced busing and mandatory quotas. They don't believe you can remedy past discrimination by mandating new discrimination. (Defending his nominees for Civil Rights Commission)

A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah.

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order --or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path.