Rand believed that people must choose their values and actions through reason.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

And it has been my position and that of our administration that we support the fundamental values of peoples' voices being heard, their votes being counted.

VOA: standard.2009.06.29

"Given everything that's going on, given the kind of response that the Iranian government has had to the desires of the Iranian people to have their voices be heard, to have their basic freedoms be respected these are the most fundamental American political values that we have,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.24