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

Now I realize it's fashionable in some circles to believe that no one in government should encourage others to read the Bible. That we're told we'll violate the constitutional separation of church and state established by the Founding Fathers and the First Amendment. The First Amendment was not written to protect people and their laws from religious values. It was written to protect those values from government tyranny.

Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense.

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

America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.

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.

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.