A strong American economy is essential to the well-being and security of our friends and allies.
You get to know people as individuals. The dreams of people may differ, but everybody wants their dreams to come true. And America, above all places, gives us the freedom to do that.
If a tax hike makes it to my desk, I’ll veto it in less time than it takes Vanna White to turn the letters V-E-T-O!
I intend to go right on appointing highly qualified individuals of the highest personal integrity to the bench, individuals who understand the danger of short-circuiting the electoral process and disenfranchising the people through judicial activism.
If it’s to be a bloodbath, let it be now. Appeasement is not the answer.
I never thought it was my style or the words I used that made a difference. It was the content. I wasn’t a great communicator, but I communicated great things.
If you want more of something, subsidize it; if you want less of something, tax it.
Almost all the worlds’ constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which We the People tell the government what it is allowed to do. We the People are free.
God’s miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree – all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God.
When cruelty is inflicted on innocent people, it discredits whatever cause.
Why should the government subsidize intellectual curiosity?
Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be political.
Bobby Kennedy is so concerned with poverty because he didn’t have any as a kid.
Jesse Helms wants me to move to the right, Lowell Weiker wants me to move to the left, and Teddy Kennedy wants me to move back to California.
Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating.
America’s view of apartheid is simple and straightforward: We believe it is wrong. We condemn it. And we are united in hoping for the day when apartheid will be no more.
If we don’t want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now.
I don’t have too much time for fiction.
I was alarmed at my doctor’s report: He said I was sound as a dollar.
I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service.