When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a wall of hostility between government and the concept of religious belief itself.

Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process.

Jesse Helms wants me to move to the right, Lowell Weiker wants me to move to the left, and Teddy Kennedy wants me to move back to California.

It should be clear to everyone that the nation's steadfast policy should afford every American of working age a realistic opportunity to acquire the ownership and control of some meaningful form of property in a growing national economy.

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

I told you once that [our marriage] was like an adolescent's dream of what marriage should be like. That hasn't changed.