For three decades, we have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.

Medicare will usher in federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have know it in this country.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

I heard one presidential candidate say that what this country needed was a president for the nineties. I was set to run again. I thought he said a president IN his nineties.

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.

With freedom goes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself.