Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.

Please assure me that you are all Republicans.

Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature.

I, in my own mind, have always thought of America as a place in the divine scheme of things that was set aside as a promised land...Any person with the courage, with the desire to tear up their roots, to strive for freedom, to attempt and dare to live in a strange and foreign place, to travel halfway across the world was welcome here.

Government should uphold-and not undermine-those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above all, family.

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

I just don't think it's good for us to be run out of town. (Refusing to cancel Secretary of State visit to Moscow)