A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
There is an old saying, The harder you try the luckier you get. I kind of like that definition of luck.
Music education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them – a world of work, culture, intellectual activity, and human involvement. The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.
There is no undertaking more challenging, no responsibility more awesome, than that of being a mother.
I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers.
I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government, but civilization itself.
The spirit of seeking understanding through personal contact with people of other nations and other cultures deserves the respect and support of all.
All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.
Obviously, it’s a great privilege and pleasure to be here at the Yale Law School Sesquicentennial Convocation. And I defy anyone to say that and chew gum at the same time.
So much of what passes for public life consists of little more than candidates without ideas, hiring consultants without conviction, to stage campaigns without content. The result, increasingly, is elections without voters.
The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?
For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.
The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn’t are as much a part of golf as life itself.
I was dumbfounded by the stupidity of the Watergate break-in.
In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.