Now I realize it's fashionable in some circles to believe that no one in government should encourage others to read the Bible. That we're told we'll violate the constitutional separation of church and state established by the Founding Fathers and the First Amendment. The First Amendment was not written to protect people and their laws from religious values. It was written to protect those values from government tyranny.

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States.

Without God, there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience... without God, there is a coarsening of the society; without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest.

Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process.

All of us can see what happens once you establish the precedent that the government can determine a man's working place and his working methods, determine his employment. From here it's a short step to all the rest of socialism, to determining his pay....He will wait for the government to tell him where he will go to work and what he will do.