We in America have learned bitter lessons from two world wars: It is better to be here [in Europe] ready to protect the peace, than to take blind shelter across the sea, rushing to respond only after freedom is lost. We've learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments with an expansionist intent.

Hope remains the highest reality, the age-old power.

[Andrew Jackson] was actually 70 years old when he left the White House

We now know that inflation results from all that deficit spending.

Conservatives were brought up to hate deficits and justifiably so. We've long thought there are two things in Washington that are unbalanced - the budget and the liberals.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.