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.

I've talked to you on a number of occasions about the economic problems our nation faces, and I am prepared to tell you it's in a hell of a mess-we're not connected to the press room yet, are we?

From my mother I learned the value of prayer, how to have dreams and believe I could make them come true.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

We stand together as we did two centuries ago, One people under God determined that our future shall be worthy of our past.

People do not make wars; governments do.

Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock.