Government should uphold-and not undermine-those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above all, family.

You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

In 1939 Winston Churchill, describing the 5000-mile peaceful border dividing Canada and the United States, said, 'That long frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, guarded only by neighborly respect and honorable obligations, is an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.

The District of Columbia is one gigantic ear.

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

We know that this mad dog of the Middle East has a goal of a world revolution. (On Muammar Qaddafi of Libya)

I oppose registration for the draft... because I believe the security of freedom can best be achieved by security through freedom.