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

I know all the bad things that happened in that war. I was in uniform four years myself.

We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years.

We've been a free people living under the law, with faith in our Maker and in our future. I've said before that the most sublime picture in American history is of George Washington on his knees in the snow at Valley Forge. That image personifies a people who know that it's not enough to depend on our own courage and goodness; we must also seek help from God, our Father and Preserver.

I told you once that [our marriage] was like an adolescent's dream of what marriage should be like. That hasn't changed.

Hayek is amongst the top 2-3 of the all the people who ever influenced me.

Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest.