The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

I just don't think it's good for us to be run out of town. (Refusing to cancel Secretary of State visit to Moscow)

The difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks.

Our moral imperative is to work with all our powers for that day when the children of the world grow up without the fear of nuclear war.

Freedom is indivisible - there is no "s" on the end of it. You can erode freedom, diminish it, but you cannot divide it and choose to keep "some freedoms" while giving up others.

For decades, we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children's future for the temporary convenience of the present. To continue this long trend is to guarantee tremendous social, cultural, political, and economic upheavals. You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. Why, then, should we think that collectively, as a nation, we are not bound by that same limitation?