Families cannot prosper and keep America strong if government becomes a Goliath that preys upon their wealth, usurps their rights, and crushes their spirit.

I received a letter just before I left office from a man. I don't know why he chose to write it, but I'm glad he did. He wrote that you can go to live in France, but you can't become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Italy, but you can't become a German, an Italian. He went through Turkey, Greece, Japan and other countries. But he said anyone, from any corner of the world, can come to live in the United States and become an American.

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

We were poor when I was young but the difference was that the government didn't come around telling you you were poor.

You can achieve anything in politics provided that you let someone else take the credit.

We seek the elimination one day of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth.

It is no coincidence that when the thugs tried to wrest control over Grenada, there were 30 Soviet advisors and hundreds of Cuban military and paramilitary forces on the island.