A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must....be undaunted when the going gets tough.

The [Carter] administration doesn't know the difference between a diplomat and a doormat.

The torch of liberty is hot; warms those who hold it high; burns those who try to extinguish it.

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

Some months before I declared, I asked for a meeting and crossed the border to meet with the president of Mexico. I did not go with a plan. I went, as I said in my announcement address, to ask him his ideas - how we could make the border something other than a locale for a nine-foot fence.

Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again

Every dollar the federal government does not take from us, every decision it does not make for us, will make our economy stronger, our lives more abundant, our future more free.