Nations do not distrust each other because they are armed. They are armed because they distrust each other.

The economic welfare of all our people must ultimately stem not from government programs, but from the wealth created by a vigorous private sector.

With freedom goes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself.

How does it feel to be the 's third choice? Humiliating? You could have thrown a dart. That's how close they were. We had so many excellent candidates.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

There is a fundamental difference between separation of church and state and denying the spiritual heritage of this country. Inscribed on the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. are Jefferson's words, 'The God Who gave us life gave us liberty -- can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?'

Could there be anything resembling a free enterprise economy, if wealth and property were concentrated in the hands of a few, while the great majority owned little more than the shirts on their backs?