Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.

I do not feel betrayed. ... He has a fine record. He is a national hero. (On Oliver L North's work)

The American people aren't overtaxed. The government in Washington is overfed. The main difference between ourselves and the other side is: we see an America where every day is the Fourth of July. They see an America where every day is April 15.

If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

Americans are hungering to feel proud and patriotic again.

Two visions of the world remain locked in dispute. The first believes all men are created equal by a loving God who has blessed us with freedom. The second vision believes that religion is opium for the masses. It believes that eternal principles like truth, liberty, and democracy have no meaning beyond the whim of the state. And [Vladimir] Lenin spoke for them.

Our spirit is back, but we haven't reinstitutionalized it. We've got to do a better job of getting across that America is freedom - freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise. And freedom is special and rare. It's fragile; it needs production [protection].