There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then you have a real start.

The current tax code is a daily mugging.

Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

We can look forward to the day when the free flow of trade, from the southern reaches of Tierra del Fuego to the northern outposts of the Arctic Circle, unites the people of the Western Hemisphere in a bond of mutually beneficial exchange, when all borders become what the U.S.-Canadian border so long has been: a meeting place, rather than a dividing line.

Now, I happen to be an optimist.

We can meet our destiny, and that destiny to build a land here that will be, for all mankind, a shining city on a hill.