Our leaders must remember that education doesn't begin with some isolated bureaucrat in Washington. It doesn't even begin with state or local officials. Education begins in the home, where it is a parental right and responsibility.

America needs jobs and opportunity, not make-work and handouts.

By 1980, we knew it was time to renew our faith, to strive with all our strength toward the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with an orderly society. We believed then and now there are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow their dreams.

I've always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock.

Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.