One of the worst mistakes anybody can make is to bet against Americans.

That's the nice thing about this job. You get to quote yourself shamelessly. If you don't, Larry Speakes will.

What we don't need is more spending, and what we don't need are taxes, and what we do need is a lot less of both.

Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.

Government is not a solution to our problem government is the problem.

The same government that requires a taxpaying citizen to document every statement on his tax return decrees that questioning a welfare applicant demeans and humiliates him.

Yet optimism is in order, because day by day democracy is proving itself to be a not-at-all-fragile flower. From Stettin on the Baltic to Varna on the Black Sea, the regimes planted by totalitarianism have had more than 30 years to establish their legitimacy. But none - not one regime - has yet been able to risk free elections. Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.