The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we're a part.

We stand together as we did two centuries ago, One people under God determined that our future shall be worthy of our past.

The victims of crime have been transformed into a group oppressively burdened by a system designed to protect them.

We have found, in our country, that when people have the right to make decisions as close to home as possible, they usually make the right decisions.

Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose.

A bird on a tether, no matter how long the rope, can always be pulled back.

We are a nation that has a government-not the other way around. And that makes us special among the nations of the earth.