If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.

To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less.

Please tell me you're Republicans.

One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project, most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can’t afford it.

An old Russian woman goes into Kremlin, gets an audience with Mikhail Gorbachev and says, In America anyone can go to the White House, walk up to Reagan's desk and say, 'I don't like the way you are running the country.' Gorbachev replied, You can do the same thing in the Soviet Union. You can go into the Kremlin, walk up to my desk and say 'I don't like the way Reagan is running his country.'

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

There's no question I am an idealist, which is another way of saying 'I am an American.'