Were not cutting the budget simply for the sake of sounder financial management. This is only a first step toward returning power to the states and communities, only a first step toward reordering the relationship between citizen and government.

Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.

I usually never walk by a microphone.

We're resolved tonight that young Americans will always see those Potomac lights, that they will always find here a city of hope in a country that's free so that when other generations look back at this conservative era in American politics and our time in power, they'll say of us that we did hold true to that dream of Joseph Winthrop and Joseph Warren, that we did keep faith with our God, that we did act worthy of ourselves, that we did protect and pass on lovingly that shining city on a hill.

We must be cautious in claiming God is on our side. I think the real question we must answer is, are we on His side?

In a world wracked by hatred, economic crisis, and political tension, America remains mankind's best hope.

The time has come to match outgo to income, instead of always doing it the other way around.