What is important is that one strives to achieve a goal.

Work and family are at the center of our lives, the foundation of our dignity as a free people.

The doctor begins to lose freedoms; it's like telling a lie, and one leads to another. First you decide that the doctor can have so many patients. They are equally divided among the various doctors by the government. But then the doctors aren't equally divided geographically, so a doctor decides he wants to practice in one town and the government has to say to him you can't live in that town, they already have enough doctors. You have to go someplace else. And from here it is only a short step to dictating where he will go.

Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats.

My dream is to see the day when nuclear weapons will be banished from the face of the Earth.

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

Every dollar the federal government does not take from us, every decision it does not make for us, will make our economy stronger, our lives more abundant, our future more free.