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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Young Americans must never again be sent to fight and die unless we are prepared to let them win.

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

In America, our origins matter less than our destination, and that is what democracy is all about.

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

May every day be a new beginning, and every dawn bring us closer to that shining city upon a hill.

If we listen to our hearts, believe in ourselves, and pull together, nothing can stand in our way.

The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

For too long, the victims of crime have been the forgotten persons of our criminal justice system.

This country was founded and built by people with great dreams and the courage to take great risks.

Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few, but the universal right of all God's children.

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