1. I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.
2. Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.
3. Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.
4. Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
5. Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
6. Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
7. Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
8. Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
9. I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
10. Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
11. The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
12. The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'
13. The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.
14. I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.
15. Man is not free unless government is limited.