...I believe that it is not enough, as I said, to tinker at the margins of U.S. immigration law... the United States must institute comprehensive reforms that conform to the realities of the era in which we live.

Liberals are people who think that being tough on crime means longer suspended sentences.

If we miss this chance to make a fresh start, we may look back on this moment from some later vantage point and realize how much that failure cost us all.

Through you, we feel as giants, once again.

If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

And there is the matter of abortion. We must with calmness and resolve help the vast majority of our fellow Americans understand that the more than 112 million abortions performed in America in 1980 amount to a great moral evil, an assault on the sacredness of human life.