If there's one observation that rings true in today's changing world, it is that freedom and peace go hand in hand.

If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

Governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people.

I've been told that some members of Congress disagree with my tax cut proposal. Well, you know it's been said that taxation is the art of plucking feathers without killing the bird. It's time they realized the bird just doesn't have any feathers left.

With the right to bear arms comes a great responsibility to use caution and common sense on handgun purchases.

Excellence does not begin in Washington.

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden.