Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.

History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20 percent of the people's income, there begins to be a lack of respect for government.... When it reaches 25 percent, there comes an increase in lawlessness.

And there is the matter of abortion. We must with calmness and resolve help the vast majority of our fellow Americans understand that the more than 112 million abortions performed in America in 1980 amount to a great moral evil, an assault on the sacredness of human life.

There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

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