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.

For a time, we forgot the American dream isn't one of making government bigger, it's keeping faith with the mighty spirit of free people under God

I do not feel betrayed. ... He has a fine record. He is a national hero. (On Oliver L North's work)

Spending on the military doesn't increase the deficit.

I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom.

I also believe this blessed land was set apart in a very special way, a country created by men and women who came here not in search of gold, but in search of God. They would be free people, living under the law with faith in their Maker and their future. Sometimes, it seems we've strayed from that noble beginning, from our conviction that standards of right and wrong do exist and must be lived up to.

One of the worst mistakes anybody can make is to bet against Americans.