Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

... the moral equal of our Founding Fathers.

I've heard drug experts say they believe if penicillin were discovered today, the FDA wouldn't license it.

A nation without borders is no nation at all.

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.

You can achieve anything in politics provided that you let someone else take the credit.