Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.

Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, 'What greater service we could render if only we had a little more money and a little more power.' But the truth is that outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector.

I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

I think maybe there could be some restrictions that there had to be a certain amount of training taken.

Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mightily to that civilization. It is doing so today by being magnificently unreconciled to oppression. Poland's struggle to be Poland and to secure the basic rights we often take for granted, demonstrates why we dare not take those rights for granted.

We meant to change a nation, and instead, we changed a world.

If you put it on the table as a bargaining chip, it becomes a bargaining chip