[Our goal] is to help revive America's traditional values: faith, family, neighborhood, work and freedom. Government has no business enforcing these values but neither must it seek, as it did in the recent past, to suppress or replace them. That only robbed us of our tiller and set us adrift. Helping to restore these values will bring new strength, direction and dignity to our lives and to the life of our nation. It's on these values that we'll best build our future.

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

America needs jobs and opportunity, not make-work and handouts.

Are you better off than you were four years ago? One of my favorite quotes Is it easier for you to go and buy things in the stores ... Is there more or less unemployment?

A small nation, faced with the denial of its sovereignty — indeed, of its very existence — reminded us that the price of freedom is high but never so costly as the loss of freedom.

The person who pays an ounce of principle for a pound of popularity gets badly cheated.

The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.