Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

There is purpose and worth to each and every life.

We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the earth. Our government has no power except that granted to it by the people It is time to check and reverse the growth of government which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed.

The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we're a part.

I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the ultimate determinant in the struggle that's now going on in the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas, a trial of spiritual resolve, the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish, the ideals to which we are dedicated.

You know, if Nancy Davis hadn't come along when she did, I would have lost my soul.