Yes, deficits are a problem. I've been saying so for more than a quarter of a century now. But the problem is not the size of the deficit, it's the size of government's claim on our economy.

No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income.

As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it.

I'd like to harness their youthful energy with a strap.

I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years.

America is too great for small dreams.

I warned that there should be no place on Earth where terrorists can rest and train and practice their deadly skills. I meant it. I said that we would act with others, if possible, and alone if necessary to ensure that terrorists have no sanctuary anywhere. Tonight, we have.