Republicans believe the best way to assure prosperity is to generate more jobs. The Democrats believe in more welfare.

There was a time when "sound as a dollar" was a description, not a joke.

Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory.

The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor.

The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.

I've often wondered, what if all of us in the world discovered that we were threatened by an outer -- a power from outer space, from another planet. Wouldn't we all of a sudden find that we didn't have any differences between us at all, we were all human beings, citizens of the world, and wouldn't we come together to fight that particular threat?

I was going to have an opening statement, but I decided that what I was going to say I wanted to get a lot of attention, so I'm going to wait and leak it.