Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.

The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.

Laughter is America's most important export.

We in America have learned bitter lessons from two world wars: It is better to be here [in Europe] ready to protect the peace, than to take blind shelter across the sea, rushing to respond only after freedom is lost. We've learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments with an expansionist intent.

The Soviet Union is an Evil Empire, and Soviet communism is the focus of evil in the modern world

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.