Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or economically as the private sector.

Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again

Through the history of our nation, Americans have always extended their hands in gestures of assistance.

It doesn't require expropriation or confiscation of private property or business to impose socialism on a people. What does it mean whether you hold the deed or the title to your business or property if the government holds the power of life and death over that business or property?

Constructive trade, the two-way exchange of goods and services, is the most efficient and logical way for each nation . . . to build a stable prosperity, a prosperity based not on aid, but on mutually beneficial economic contacts.

The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we're a part.

Illegal immigrants in considerable numbers have become productive members of our society and are a basic part of our work force. Those who have established equities in the United States should be recognized and accorded legal status. At the same time, in so doing, we must not encourage illegal immigration.