The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.

We will remain steady. We will pursue every avenue in the search for peace and stability.

My central arms control objective has been to reduce substantially and ultimately to eliminate nuclear weapons and rid the world of the nuclear threat. The prevention of the spread of nuclear explosives is to additional countries is an indispensable part of our efforts to meet this objective. I intend to continue my pursuit of this goal with untiring determination and a profound sense of personal commitment.

There are only two things that the liberals don't understand: the things that change and the things that don't.

But the simple truth is that we've lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive.

I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever unless you do something to starve it.

I knew Thomas Jefferson. He was a friend of mine. And believe me, you are no Thomas Jefferson. (at 1992 Republican party convention, referring to Bill Clinton)