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.

George Burns . . . the only man I know who does fool Mother Nature.

I would like to dissolve the $10 billion national Department of Education created by President Carter and turn schools back to the local school districts, where we built the greatest public school system the world has ever seen. I think I can make a case that the decline in the quality of public education began when federal aid became federal interference.

Today it is difficult to find leaders who are independent of the forces that have brought us our problems: The Congress, the bureaucracy, the lobbyists, big business, and big labor.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor.