The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite.

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

Indeed, it is an indisputable fact that all the complex and horrendous questions confronting us at home and worldwide have their answer in that single book [the Bible].

I know that some believe that voluntary prayer in schools should be restricted to a moment of silence. We already have the right to remain silent - we can take our Fifth Amendment.

I, for one, resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me, the free men and women of this country, as 'the masses.'

Christmas is a holiday that we celebrate not as individuals nor as a nation, but as a human family.