Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Please tell me you're Republicans.

Too often, people forget the basic fact of life: all those good things we enjoy come from the ache in [our] backs and the willingness to shoulder great personals risks.

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

Some months before I declared, I asked for a meeting and crossed the border to meet with the president of Mexico. I did not go with a plan. I went, as I said in my announcement address, to ask him his ideas - how we could make the border something other than a locale for a nine-foot fence.

I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day.

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.