The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

There is no love like a mother’s - she who carries the child that God knits in the womb, she who nourishes and guides, she who teaches and inspires, she who gives of her heart and soul and self for the good and the happiness of her children and her family.

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

I heard one presidential candidate say that what this country needed was a president for the nineties. I was set to run again. I thought he said a president IN his nineties.

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession... and I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite.

Every dollar the federal government does not take from us, every decision it does not make for us, will make our economy stronger, our lives more abundant, our future more free.