If you can't summarize an issue on one page, you don't understand the issue well enough.

Anybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and become an American.

Freedom prospers only where the blessings of God are avidly sought, and humbly accepted.

I know all the bad things that happened in that war. I was in uniform four years myself.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.

We can have peace and brotherly love by accepting our responsibility to preserve freedom.

The [Carter] administration doesn't know the difference between a diplomat and a doormat.

It should be the right of the individual to decide whether he wants to belong to a union.

Liberals are people who think that being tough on crime means longer suspended sentences.

We will remain steady. We will pursue every avenue in the search for peace and stability.

Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

My golf-loving friend Bob Hope asked me what my handicap was, so I told him - the Congress.

Someone told me it was a round thing that gobbles up money. I thought that was Tip O'Neill.

Greatest gift is human life and that we have a duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.

The time has come to match outgo to income, instead of always doing it the other way around.

We will never disarm any American who seeks to protect his or her family from fear and harm.

My dream is to see the day when nuclear weapons will be banished from the face of the Earth.

Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines.

Everyone is a liberal until they have something to conserve. Then they become a conservative.

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future.

Elena, my four year old, says to me in all seriousness; "Mommy, you need to buy another baby".

Let us renew our faith that as free men and women we still have the power to better our lives.

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

If I'd gotten the job I wanted at Montgomery Ward, I suppose I would never have left Illinois.

Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.

Double - no, triple - our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth.

When those who are governed do too little, those who govern can - and often will - do too much.

There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.

Work and family are at the center of our lives, the foundation of our dignity as a free people.

I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it.

I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved.

You can't be for big government, big taxes and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.

If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity; not stifle it.

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

The torch of liberty is hot; warms those who hold it high; burns those who try to extinguish it.

A strong American economy is essential to the well-being and security of our friends and allies.

No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income.

Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look.

Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest.

Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.

I don't think any of us should forget that the security of America is our highest responsibility.

I feel that the whole Western World will benefit by the resurrection of the neutron bomb project.

God, the source of all knowledge, should never have been expelled from our children's classrooms.

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