We don't lump people by groups or special interests. And let me add, in the party of Lincoln there is no room for intolerance and not even a small corner for anti-Semitism or bigotry of any kind. Many people are welcome in our house, but not the bigots.

There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall exist below a certain level or standard of living, and certainly we don't quarrel with this. But look more closely and you may find that all too often these well-meaning people are building a ceiling above which no one shall be permitted to climb and between the two are pressing us all into conformity, into a mold of standardized mediocrity.

For the people of Israel and America are historic partners in the global quest for human dignity and freedom. We will always remain at each other's side.

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 Americans, and we have a rendezvous with destiny . . . No people who have ever lived on this earth have fought harder, paid a higher price for freedom, or done more to advance the dignity of man than Americans.

We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.

If there's one thing the American people aren't lacking, it is courage.

I can't help but believe that in the future we will see in the United States and throughout the Western world an increasing trend toward the next logical step, employee ownership. It is a path that befits a free people.

We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!

Ours was the first revolution in the history of mankind that truly reversed the course of government, and with three little words: 'We the people.' 'We the people' tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us. 'We the people' are the driver, the government is the car. And we decide where it should go, and by what route, and how fast. Almost all the world's constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which 'We the people' tell the government what it is allowed to do. 'We the people' are free.

When I took the oath of office, I pledged loyalty to only one special interest group - ‘We the people’.

I believe now, as I alway have, that America's strength is in 'We the People.'

I notice that all of the people who support abortion are already born.

We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us.

Governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people.

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

Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.

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

For a time, we forgot the American dream isn't one of making government bigger, it's keeping faith with the mighty spirit of free people under God

Our tax policy is engineered by people who view tax as a means of achieving changes in our social structure.

Wouldn't it be better for the human spirit and for the soul of this nation to encourage people to accept more responsibility to care for each other rather than leaving those tasks to paid bureaucrats.

Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth.

Isn't it strange that ... people build walls to keep an enemy out, and there's only one part of the world and one philosophy where they have to build walls to keep their people in

My basic rule is that I want people who don't want a job in government.

We must have faith in the people of this country and faith in our principles.

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

A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.

We've been a free people living under the law, with faith in our Maker and in our future. I've said before that the most sublime picture in American history is of George Washington on his knees in the snow at Valley Forge. That image personifies a people who know that it's not enough to depend on our own courage and goodness; we must also seek help from God, our Father and Preserver.

The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution.

One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project, most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can’t afford it.

For one, we very much need in any immigration bill - we need protection for people who are in this country and who have not become citizens, for example, that they are protected and legitimized and given permanent residency here. And we want to see some things of that kind added to the immigration bill.

. . . Government should do only those things the people cannot do for themselves.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again.

What has happened to the dreams of the United Nations' founders? What has happened to the spirit which created the United Nations? The answer is clear: Governments got in the way of the dreams of the people.

Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program.

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

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

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

We should declare war on North Vietnam - we could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas

What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant U.S. retaliation to deter a Soviet attack, that we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil or that of our allies?

I have seen the rise and fall of Nazi tyranny, the subsequent cold war and the nuclear nightmare that for fifty years haunted the dreams of children everywhere. During that time my generation defeated totalitarianism. As a result, your world is poised for better tomorrows. What will you do on your journey?

America has never gotten in a war because we were too strong.

I think all of us are agreed that war is probably man's greatest stupidity and I think peace is the dream that lives in the heart of everyone wherever he may be in the world, but unfortunately, unlike a family quarrel, it doesn't take two to make a war. It only takes one, unless the other one is prepared to surrender at the first hint of force.