While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

The societies which have achieved the most spectacular broad-based economic progress in the shortest period of time are not the most tightly controlled, not necessarily the biggest in size, or the wealthiest in natural resources. No, what unites them all is their willingness to believe in the magic of the marketplace.

The ongoing migration of persons to the United States in violation of our laws is a serious national problem detrimental to the interests of the United States.

I don't know why anyone would want to study the expansion of the universe.

America's best days lie ahead. You ain't seen nothing yet.

The fact is, we'll never build a lasting economic recovery by going deeper into debt at a faster rate than we ever have before.

I can't believe that this world can go on beyond our generation and on down to succeeding generations with this kind of weapon on both sides poised at each other without someday some fool or some maniac or some accident triggering the kind of war that is the end of the line for all of us. And I just think of what a sigh of relief would go up from everyone on this earth if someday-and this is what I have-my hope, way in the back of my head-is that if we start down the road to reduction, maybe one day in doing that, somebody will say, 'Why not all the way? Let's get rid of all these things'.