“Please tell me you’re Republicans.”

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver 5 minutes longer.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

No, I’m just a man committed to great ideas.

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

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

It is time to realize we are too great a nation for small dreams. We’re not – as some would have us believe – doomed to an inevitable fate.

A leader, once convinced a particular course of action is the right one, must have the determination to stick with it and be undaunted when the going gets tough.

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they’re sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive.

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.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

Trust, but verify.

The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.

We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things.

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

A democracy cannot thrive where power remains unchecked and justice is reserved for a select few.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.

Real change never occurs from the top on down, [but] always from the bottom on up.

We need a government that stands up for working people. That is what we promised to deliver and that is what we must do.

The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.

It is the responsibility of anyone involved in politics to always think of what Japan can do to contribute more to the peace and stability