To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less.

We're resolved tonight that young Americans will always see those Potomac lights, that they will always find here a city of hope in a country that's free so that when other generations look back at this conservative era in American politics and our time in power, they'll say of us that we did hold true to that dream of Joseph Winthrop and Joseph Warren, that we did keep faith with our God, that we did act worthy of ourselves, that we did protect and pass on lovingly that shining city on a hill.

Please assure me that you are all Republicans.

Detente - isn't that what a farmer has with his turkey - until Thanksgiving?

If you can't summarize an issue on one page, you don't understand the issue well enough.

Our Founding Fathers well understood that concentrated power is the enemy of liberty and the rights of man. They knew that the American experiment in individual liberty, free enterprise and republican self-government could succeed only if power were widely distributed. And since in any society social and political power flow from economic power, they saw that wealth and property would have to be widely distributed among the people of the country. The truth of this insight is immediately apparent.

Politics is, for me, forgive and -as you may have heard- sometimes forget.