We don't celebrate dependence day on the Fourth of July. We celebrate Independence Day.

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.

I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the news, we are reminded that liberty is a rare commodity in this world.

History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20 percent of the people's income, there begins to be a lack of respect for government.... When it reaches 25 percent, there comes an increase in lawlessness.

Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats.

To do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom.