If we listen to our hearts, believe in ourselves, and pull together, nothing can stand in our way.

Young Americans must never again be sent to fight and die unless we are prepared to let them win.

Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite.

The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars.

Today it is difficult to find leaders who are independent of the forces that have brought us our problems: The Congress, the bureaucracy, the lobbyists, big business, and big labor.

Every year, an average of 9,200 Americans are murdered by handguns, according to Department of Justice statistics. This does not include suicides or the tens of thousands of robberies, rapes and assaults committed with handguns. This level of violence must be stopped.

I believe the highest aspiration of man should be individual freedom and the development of the individual.