I think people have a need to feel good about the country they live in, but what's happening, I think, is that that need - which is a good thing - is getting manipulated and exploited.

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.

Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again

Politics is, for me, forgive and -as you may have heard- sometimes forget.

I believe no challenge is more important to the character of America than restoring the right to life to all human beings.

Young Americans must never again be sent to fight and die unless we are prepared to let them win.

You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, 'There is a price we will not pay.' There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning of the phrase 'Peace through strength.'