Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas.

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

I would like to dissolve the $10 billion national Department of Education created by President Carter and turn schools back to the local school districts, where we built the greatest public school system the world has ever seen. I think I can make a case that the decline in the quality of public education began when federal aid became federal interference.

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

The Federalist Society is changing the culture of our nation's law schools. You are returning the values and concepts of law as our founders understood them to scholarly dialogue, and through that dialogue, to our legal institutions.

I think the presidency is an institution over which you have temporary custody.