We can meet our destiny, and that destiny to build a land here that will be, for all mankind, a shining city on a hill.
The other day, someone told me the difference between a democracy and a people’s democracy. It’s the same difference between a jacket and a straitjacket.
Her many achievements will be appreciated more as time goes on.
How does it feel to be the ’s third choice? Humiliating? You could have thrown a dart. That’s how close they were. We had so many excellent candidates.
When the Commander-in-Chief of a nation finds it necessary to order employees of the government or agencies of the government to do things that would technically break the law, he has to be able to declare it legal for them to do that.
Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act.
The bill’s a textbook example of special interest pork barrel politics at work, and I have no choice but to veto it.
We can’t socialize the doctors without socializing the patients.
The torch of liberty is hot; warms those who hold it high; burns those who try to extinguish it.
When people tell me that I became President on January 20th, 1981, I feel I have to correct them. You don’t become President of the United States. You are given temporary custody of an institution called the Presidency, which belongs to our people.
The great dynamic success of capitalism had given us a powerful weapon in our battle against Communism-money.
Our whole system of government is based on “We the people,” but if we the people don’t pay attention to what’s going on, we have no right to bellyache or squawk when things go wrong.
I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever unless you do something to starve it.
In Hollywood, as I’ve often said, if you don’t sing or dance, you end up as an after-dinner speaker.
I don’t know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it. It reminded me a lot of my job as governor.
We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by the direction of the people. And this is the simple magic which makes a commonplace routine a near miracle to many of the world.
I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I’m not going to deny that you don’t now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep the peace, we and our allies must be strong enough to convince any potential aggressor that war could bring no benefit, only disaster.
The fourth landing of the Columbia is the historical equivalent of the driving of the golden spike which completed the first transcontinental railroad. It marks our entrance into a new era.
Growing and decaying vegetation in this land are responsible for 93 percent of the oxides of nitrogen.