“I say that when you elect a president you want a man to manage the legitimate business of your government. The government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it away.”

I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.

I think the President ought to bring everybody that’s in American uniform back because we’re headed for war.

Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.

Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.

I thought of something my old coach at Staunton had often said: ‘We win some, we lose some, and some get rained out; but we always suit up.’

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?

I think some highly secret government UFO investigations are going on that we don’t know about–and probably never will unless the Air Force discloses them.

I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.

Today neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of States’ Rights. The 10th Amendment is not a ‘general assumption’ but a rule of law. States rights mean that states have a right to act or not to act, as they see fit, in areas reserved to them.

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

There’s no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.

I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.

Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States.

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.