As a nation, we must choose between the sanctity of life ethic and the quality of life ethic. I have no trouble identifying the answer our nation has always given to this basic question, and the answer that I hope and pray it will give in the future.
The things that unite us-America’s past of which we are so proud, our hopes and aspirations for the future of the world and this much loved country-these things far outweigh what little divides us.
Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines.
The Federalist Society is changing the culture of our nation’s law schools. You are returning the values and concepts of law as our founders understood them to scholarly dialogue, and through that dialogue, to our legal institutions.
Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats.
The American people cannot close their eyes to abuses of human rights and injustice, whether they occur among friend or adversary or even on our own shores.
We’re not just discussing limits on a further increase of nuclear weapons; we seek, instead, to reduce their number. We seek the total elimination one day of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth.
Christopher Columbus was looking for a passage to India, but he landed in America. He landed in the wrong place, and when he got back, he wasn’t sure where he’d been. But most important of all, he did it on someone else’s money.
Government must not supersede the will of the people or the responsibilities of the people. The function of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
Those who advocate more and more government regulation have been experimenting for 40 years, trying to create an economic system in which everyone can somehow be made more prosperous by the toil of someone else.
You can achieve anything in politics provided that you let someone else take the credit.
America’s economic strength depends on industry’s ability to improve productivity and quality and to remain on the cutting edge of technology, and that’s why the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is so important.
The same government that requires a taxpaying citizen to document every statement on his tax return decrees that questioning a welfare applicant demeans and humiliates him.
The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom.
We intend to keep the peace – we will also keep our freedom.
I know that some believe that voluntary prayer in schools should be restricted to a moment of silence. We already have the right to remain silent – we can take our Fifth Amendment.
Anyone who seeks success or greatness should first forget about both and seek only the truth. The rest will follow.
We didn’t discover our values in a poll taken a week before the convention.
We don’t celebrate dependence day on the Fourth of July. We celebrate Independence Day.
Spending on the military doesn’t increase the deficit.