I would like to dissolve the $10 billion national Department of Education created by President Carter and turn schools back to the local school districts, where we built the greatest public school system the world has ever seen. I think I can make a case that the decline in the quality of public education began when federal aid became federal interference.

I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.

Isn't it interesting that all of those people who support the choice of abortion have already been born?

Poverty is a career for lot's of well paid people

Good citizenship and defending democracy means living up to the ideals and values that make this country great.

Thomas Jefferson made a comment about the Presidency and age. He said that one should not worry about one's exact chronological age in reference to his ability to perform one's task. And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

Nations do not distrust each other because they are armed. They are armed because they distrust each other.