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

Whether meeting with leaders and parents concerned about drugs in Bonn, Lisbon, or with the Holy Father at the Vatican, or doing a pretty fair flamenco in Madrid, I think Nancy's one of the best ambassadors America's ever had.

Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.

America is the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul itself into bondage.

I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom.

So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride - the temptation blithely to declare yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong, good and evil.

Bureaucracy is adept at protecting its nest.