Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way

I don't think any of us should forget that the security of America is our highest responsibility.

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

Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature.

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

Because you won't get gun control by disarming law abiding citizens. There's only one way to get real gun control: Disarm the thugs and the criminals, lock them up, and if you don't actually throw away the key, at least lose it for a long time.