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

To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less.

I've always believed that this blessed land was set apart in a special way, that some divine plan placed this great continent here between the oceans to be found by people from every corner of the Earth who had a special love for freedom and the courage to uproot themselves, leave homeland and friends, to come to a strange land. And coming here they created something new in all the history of mankind-a land where man is not beholden to government, government is beholden to man.

If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.

We still have too much air and water pollution and we still need to work to reduce it. But we also need to put the problem of pollution into a historical as well as scientific perspective.

America is the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul itself into bondage.

We don't lump people by groups or special interests. And let me add, in the party of Lincoln there is no room for intolerance and not even a small corner for anti-Semitism or bigotry of any kind. Many people are welcome in our house, but not the bigots.