It was leadership here at home that gave us strong American influence abroad, and the collapse of imperial Communism. Great nations have responsibilities to lead, and we should always be cautious of those who would lower our profile, because they might just wind up lowering our flag.

The signs of the Vietnam War protestors said "Make Love not War!" It didn't seem to me that they were capable of either.

If you want more of something, subsidize it; if you want less of something, tax it.

A state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens; the more decent the citizens, the more decent the state.

To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership-not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere.

It's time that we recognized that ours was in truth a noble cause.

The real question today is not when human life begins, but, what is the value of human life? The abortionist who reassembles the arms and legs of a tiny baby to make sure all its parts have been torn from its mother's body can hardly doubt whether it is a human being. The real question for him and for all of us is whether that tiny human life has a God-given right to be protected by the law - the same right we have.