Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.

What we don't need is more spending, and what we don't need are taxes, and what we do need is a lot less of both.

I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast

Education is like a diamond with many facets: It includes the basic mastery of numbers and letters that give us access to the treasury of human knowledge, accumulated and refined through the ages; it includes technical and vocational training as well as instruction in science, higher mathematics, and humane letters.

Presidents come and go. History comes and goes, but principles endure.

Every dollar the federal government does not take from us, every decision it does not make for us, will make our economy stronger, our lives more abundant, our future more free.

Even now I wonder what I might have accomplished if I'd studied harder