In this new world economy, national boundaries are increasingly becoming obsolete.

The years ahead will be great ones for our country, for the cause of freedom and the spread of civilization. The West will not contain Communism, it will transcend Communism. We will not bother to denounce it, we'll dismiss it as a sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written.

Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself.

My basic rule is that I want people who don't want a job in government.

Let it never be said of this generation of Americans that we became so obsessed with failure that we refused to take risks that could further the cause of peace and freedom in the world.

The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor.

If not us, who? And if not now, when?