I wasn’t a great communicator, but I communicated great things.
When you see all that rhetorical smoke billowing up from the Democrats, well ladies and gentleman, I’d follow the example of their nominee; don’t inhale.
If I’d gotten the job I wanted at Montgomery Ward, I suppose I would never have left Illinois.
Cold, hungry, scared as hell inside, but too damn brave to admit it.
Our liberty springs from and depends upon an abiding faith in God.
It’s time that we recognized that ours was in truth a noble cause.
I’m just a citizen temporarily in public service.
A strong nation is one that is loved by its people and, as Edmund Burke put it, for a country to be loved it ought to be lovely.
I believe in a sound, strong environmental policy that protects the health of our people and a wise stewardship of our nation’s natural resources.
Those concerns of a national character-such as air and water pollution that do not respect state boundaries, or the national transportation system, or efforts to safeguard your civil liberties-must, of course, be handled on the national level.
The family has always been the cornerstone of American society.
Cars don’t cause pollution, trees do.
We still have too much air and water pollution and we still need to work to reduce it. But we also need to put the problem of pollution into a historical as well as scientific perspective...
By working together, pooling our resources and building on our strengths, we can accomplish great things.
Hope remains the highest reality, the age-old power.
This crime against humanity must never be forgotten.
I’m a sucker for hero worship.
The doors of this Library are open now and are all welcome. The judgment of history is left to you, the people. I have no fears of that, for we have done our best. And so I say, come and learn from it.
There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.
The time has come to turn to God and reassert our trust in Him.