I don't think any of us should forget that the security of America is our highest responsibility.

I believe the highest aspiration of man should be individual freedom and the development of the individual.

I think people have a need to feel good about the country they live in, but what's happening, I think, is that that need - which is a good thing - is getting manipulated and exploited.

If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. But if you provide a child with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that you're liable to be given more money to do it with. Well, we've discovered that money alone isn't the answer.

I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years.

Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.

Without God, there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience... without God, there is a coarsening of the society; without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.