Bureaucracy is adept at protecting its nest.

Why should the government subsidize intellectual curiosity?

Don't let anyone tell you that America's best days are behind her - that the American spirit has been vanquished. We've seen it triumph too often in our lives to stop believing in it now.

Anytime you and I question the schemes of the do-gooders, we're denounced as being against their humanitarian goals. They say we're always "against" things-we're never "for" anything. Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

What's happening in Cuba is not a failure of the Cuban people. It's a failure of Fidel Castro and the Communists.

I believe no challenge is more important to the character of America than restoring the right to life to all human beings.

I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future.