...guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government.

The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid.

A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote.

That foreign trade should be fair rather than free.

I'm not a social friend of the Reagans. That's by their choice and by mine. They don't drink enough.

When you have a gutless Congress a lawless president can do pretty much what he chooses.

Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility.

Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away.

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.

I cannot show remorse because I do not believe I am guilty.

One other thing I think a conservative believes is that the parents, not government, are and should be responsible for the upbringing and behavior of their children.

When I forget how to love I look at my dog.

We all fight for money, some for power, but most of all for love. But me, I fight to become a champion.

As a woman to be competitive is to be passive.

Whenever the internal dialogue stops, the world collapses, and extraordinary facets of ourselves surface, as though they had been kept heavily guarded by our words.

When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.

If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world.

I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.

A mother's love is like an island, In life's ocean vast and wide, A peaceful, quiet shelter, From the restless, rising tide.

Sometimes, when you catch someone unaware at just the right time and in just the right light, you can catch sight of what they will be.

His element is so fine Being sharpened by his death, To drink from the wine-breath While our gross palates drink from the whole wine.