What we don't need is more spending, and what we don't need are taxes, and what we do need is a lot less of both.

There are only two things that the liberals don't understand: the things that change and the things that don't.

It ought to be remembered by all [that] the Games more than 2,000 years ago started as a means of bringing peace between the Greek city-states. And in those days, even if a war was going on, they called off the war in order to hold the Games. I wish we were still as civilized.

We are a nation that has a government-not the other way around. And that makes us special among the nations of the earth.

I was 21 and looking for work in 1932, one of the worst years of the Great Depression. And I can remember one bleak night in the thirties when my father learned on Christmas Eve that he'd lost his job. To be young in my generation was to feel that your future had been mortgaged out from under you, and that's a tragic mistake we must never allow our leaders to make again.

My friends, we did it. We weren't just marking time, we made a difference. We made (America) stronger - we made (America) freer - and we left her in good hands. All in all, not bad. Not bad at all. And so, goodbye. God bless you. And God bless the United States of America.

I believe in a sound, strong environmental policy that protects the health of our people and a wise stewardship of our nation's natural resources.