You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard.

Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things.

I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales.

Of the many influences that have shaped the United States into a distinctive nation and people, none may be said to be more fundamental and enduring than the Bible.

I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war. It's to be prepared for peace. There's a sign over the entrance to the Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington state, and that sign says it all: 'Peace is our profession'.