"Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?"

"The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did."

"For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'"

"I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator."

"Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind."

"What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war."

"There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans."

"There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained."