We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry every night. Well, that was probably true. They were all on a diet.
Until now has there ever been a time in which so many of the prophecies are coming together? There have been times in the past when people thought the end of the world was coming, and so forth, but never anything like this.
How could an actor become president?
If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.
I know I’m not in government anymore. In fact I’m out of work.
The war in vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to some extent. It’s been said that these memorials reflect a hunger for healing.
Anyone that’s ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never never gets done as soon as you wish it would.
I deplore the tendency, in some institutions, to go directly toward training for a trade or profession or something and ignoring the liberal arts. It is the foundation of education.
Where there’s liberty, art succeeds.
Information is the oxygen of the modern age.
We speak with pride and admiration of that little band of Americans who overcame insuperable odds to set this nation on course 200 years ago. But our glory didn’t end with them. Americans ever since have emulated their deeds.
The future is best decided by ballots, not bullets.
Facts are stupid things ? stubborn things, I should say.
We will never recognize the true value of our own lives until we affirm the value in the life of others.
Without a vision the people perish.
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.
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.