A stronger defense is an investment in peace.

We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry each night. Well that was probably true. They were all on a diet.

I do not feel betrayed. ... He has a fine record. He is a national hero. (On Oliver L North's work)

For three decades, we have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.

The founders of the United Nations sought to replace a world at war with a world of civilized order. They hoped that a world of relentless conflict would give way to a new era, one where freedom from violence prevailed.... But the awful truth is that the use of violence for political gain has become more, not less, widespread in the last decade.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

We don't celebrate dependence day on the Fourth of July. We celebrate Independence Day.