I hope Americans will read and study the Bible in the coming year. It's my firm belief that the enduring values, as I say, presented in its pages have a great meaning for each of us and for our nation.

We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us.

Anybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and become an American.

No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Abraham Lincoln freed the black man. In many ways, Dr. King freed the white man. How did he accomplish this tremendous feat? Where others - white and black - preached hatred, he taught the principles of love and nonviolence.

There is nothing wrong with America that Americans can't fix.