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

My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way.

Anyone who seeks success or greatness should first forget about both and seek only the truth. The rest will follow.

If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capcity to govern someone else.

Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession... and I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers... Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them for ourselves.