The criminal element now calculates that crime really does pay.

There can be no greater good than the quest for peace, and no finer purpose than the preservation of freedom.

Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars.

People are tired of wasteful government programs and welfare chiselers, and they are angry about the constant spiral of taxes and government regulations, arrogant bureaucrats, and public officials who think all of mankind's problems can be solved by throwing the taxpayers dollars at them.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.