Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
It’s difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn’t available.
How can a president not be an actor?
People do not make wars; governments do.
All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.
They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.
Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.
Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.
Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.
The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.