I'm not smart enough to lie

Our liberties, our values, all for which America stands is safe today because brave men and women have been ready to face the fire at freedom's front. And we thank God for them.

If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.

I'm just a citizen temporarily in public service.

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession... and I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

America has never gotten in a war because we were too strong.

Government must not supersede the will of the people or the responsibilities of the people. The function of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.