If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

My golf-loving friend Bob Hope asked me what my handicap was, so I told him - the Congress.

For the average American, the message is clear. Liberalism is no longer the answer. It is the problem.

I received a letter just before I left office from a man. I don't know why he chose to write it, but I'm glad he did. He wrote that you can go to live in France, but you can't become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Italy, but you can't become a German, an Italian. He went through Turkey, Greece, Japan and other countries. But he said anyone, from any corner of the world, can come to live in the United States and become an American.

Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom, law is but a cynical veneer for injustice and oppression.

Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.