Seventy-five years ago I was born in Tampico, Illinois, in a little flat above the bank building. We didn’t have any other contact with the bank than that.
I remain California-bound.
I miss going to church, but I think the Lord understands.
I think we should keep the grain and export the farmers.
My doctors told me this morning my blood pressure is down so low that I can start reading the newspapers.
These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America’s founding fathers.
My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the security of the United States. This danger will not go away it will grow worse, much worse, if we fail to take action now.
Were not cutting the budget simply for the sake of sounder financial management. This is only a first step toward returning power to the states and communities, only a first step toward reordering the relationship between citizen and government.
To do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom.
I have learned that one of the most important rules in politics is poise – which means looking like an owl after you have behaved like a jackass.
From my mother I learned the value of prayer, how to have dreams and believe I could make them come true.
Church and state are, and must remain, separate.
More than any gift or toy, ornament of tree, let us resolve that this Christmas shall be, like that first Christmas, a celebration of interior treasures.
Presidents come and go. History comes and goes, but principles endure.
Please assure me that you are all Republicans.
For too long, the victims of crime have been the forgotten persons of our criminal justice system.
The victims of crime have been transformed into a group oppressively burdened by a system designed to protect them.
In case anybody asks you about my position on capital punishment, you can tell them I favor it; and if they want to know why, you can tell them this story.
I don’t know why anyone would want to study the expansion of the universe.
I doubt evolution is real.