Hayek is amongst the top 2-3 of the all the people who ever influenced me.

The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally - not a 20 percent traitor.

... a faceless mass, waiting for handouts.

Our liberties, our values, all for which America stands is safe today because brave men and women have been ready to face the fire at freedom's front. And we thank God for them.

The national Democratic leadership is going so far left, they've left America. Don't let them bury the American dream in their graveyard of gloom and envy.

Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process.

The United States and the freedom for which it stands, the freedom for which they died, must endure and prosper. Their lives remind us that freedom is not bought cheaply. It has a cost; it imposes a burden. And just as they whom we commemorate were willing to sacrifice, so too must we - in a less final, less heroic way - be willing to give of ourselves.