Our tax policy is engineered by people who view tax as a means of achieving changes in our social structure.

No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.

Blondes have the hottest kisses. Red-heads are fair-to-middling torrid, and brunettes are the frigidest of all. It's something to do with hormones, no doubt.

We've been a free people living under the law, with faith in our Maker and in our future. I've said before that the most sublime picture in American history is of George Washington on his knees in the snow at Valley Forge. That image personifies a people who know that it's not enough to depend on our own courage and goodness; we must also seek help from God, our Father and Preserver.

Freedom-loving people around the world must say . . . I am a refugee in a crowded boat foundering off the coast of Vietnam. I am Laotian, a Cambodian, a Cuban, and a Miskito Indian in Nicaragua. I, too, am a potential victim of totalitarianism.

The [Carter] administration doesn't know the difference between a diplomat and a doormat.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.