There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.

I've long believed that one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation that anyone's child, even from the humblest of families, could grow up to own a business or a corporation. Thomas Jefferson dreamed of a land of small farmers, of shopowners, and merchants. Abraham Lincoln signed into law the Homestead Act that ensured that the great western prairies of America would be the realm of independent, propertyowning citizens-a mightier guarantee of freedom is difficult to imagine.

If we've learned any lessons during the past few decades, perhaps the most important is that preservation of our environment is not a partisan challenge; it's common sense. Our physical health, our social happiness, and our economic well-being will be sustained only by all of us working in partnership as thoughtful, effective stewards of our natural resources.

It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp.

These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America's founding fathers.

My doctors told me this morning my blood pressure is down so low that I can start reading the newspapers.

There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States.