"It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas."

"Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is."

"Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means."

"Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook."

"Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit. They can provide you shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you're ill, all the things guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave. They don't understand that we also dream."

"Just think how happy you'd be if you lost everything you have right now & then got it back."

"Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15."

"Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying."

"It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?"

"The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things."

"Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world."

"Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders."

"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone."

"The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination."

"I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress."

"I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon."

"We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child."

"One picture is worth 1,000 denials."

"I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, in the parlance of the theater, that audience and I were together."

"I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse."

"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."

"We are never defeated unless we give up on God."

"If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen."

"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so."

"More than a decade ago, a Supreme Court decision literally wiped off the books of fifty states statutes protecting the rights of unborn children. Abortion on demand now takes the lives of up to 1.5 million unborn children a year. Human life legislation ending this tragedy will some day pass the Congress, and you and I must never rest until it does. Unless and until it can be proven that the unborn child is not a living entity, then its right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness must be protected."

"Facts are stubborn things."

"Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement."

"You can't tax business. Business doesn't pay taxes. It collects taxes."

"It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available."

"I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself."

"You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done."

"Radio was theater of the mind."

"If freedom, democracy, and the rights of man are to be preserved through the ages, free men and women must accept the responsibilities that go with their freedoms."

"If there's one observation that rings true in today's changing world, it is that freedom and peace go hand in hand."

"To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will."

"The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts."

"Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his."

"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."

"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."

"How can a president not be an actor?"

"No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology."

"Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty."

"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."

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."

"Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse."

"It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts."

"I don't believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing."

"We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country."

"Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing."

"Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives."