Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity; not stifle it.

It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp.

Well, I think there has to be some (gun) control.

An America that is militarily and economically strong is not enough. The world must see an America that is morally strong with a creed and a vision. This is what has led us to dare and achieve. For us, values count.

I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom.

More than a decade ago, a Supreme Court decision literally wiped off the books of fifty states statutes protecting the rights of unborn children. Abortion on demand now takes the lives of up to 1.5 million unborn children a year. Human life legislation ending this tragedy will some day pass the Congress, and you and I must never rest until it does. Unless and until it can be proven that the unborn child is not a living entity, then its right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness must be protected.

We can have peace and brotherly love by accepting our responsibility to preserve freedom.