There are only two things that the liberals don't understand: the things that change and the things that don't.

Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying-go down in flames. No, if I can get 70 or 80 percent of what it is I'm trying to get ... I'll take that and then continue to try to get the rest in the future.

I know all the bad things that happened in that war. I was in uniform four years myself.

You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, 'There is a price we will not pay.' There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning of the phrase 'Peace through strength.'

Young Americans must never again be sent to fight and die unless we are prepared to let them win.

It doesn't do any good to hold the door open for someone if they don't have a way to walk through it. And if they do have a way to pass through it then you probably don't need to hold it open because they can open it for themselves.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.