The lesson of all this was, of course, that because we're a great nation, our challenges seem complex. It will always be this way. But as long as we remember our first principles and believe in ourselves, the future will always be ours. And something else we learned: Once you begin a great movement, there's no telling where it will end. We meant to change a nation, and instead, we changed a world.

I won a nickname, 'The Great Communicator.' But I never thought it was my style or the words I used that made a difference: It was the content. I wasn't a grea…

'We the people' tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us. 'We the people' are the driver, the government is the car. And we decide where it should go…

I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predicta…

'It is said that adversity introduces us to ourselves. This is true of a nation as well. We see our national character in our ability to rally together in time…

Well, right now it seems that things are going very badly for me, have been doing so for some considerable time, and may continue to do so well into the future…

Well, right now it seems that things are going very badly for me, have been doing so for some considerable time, and may continue to do so well into the future…