Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.

Throughout our history, We Americans have been willing to meet great challenges and do what is right when our destiny demanded it.

Some months before I declared, I asked for a meeting and crossed the border to meet with the president of Mexico. I did not go with a plan. I went, as I said in my announcement address, to ask him his ideas - how we could make the border something other than a locale for a nine-foot fence.

There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values.

We've been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something - for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to.

It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp.

An America that is militarily and economically strong is not enough. The world must see an America that is morally strong with a creed and a vision. This is what has led us to dare and achieve. For us, values count.