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.

The Soviet leaders reserve unto themselves the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat and that the only morality they recognize is what will further their cause.

Most (tax revisions) didn’t improve the system, they made it more like Washington itself: complicated

In the present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem

I haven’t seen this much lard since I handed out blue ribbons at the Iowa State Fair,

I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service.

we did not appreciate fully enough the depth of the hatred and complexity of the problems that made the Middle East such a jungle In the weeks immediately after the bombing, I believed the last...

A few months ago, I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that’s true, but the facts and evidence tell me it...

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...

The key for any speaker is to establish his own point of view for the audience, so they can see the game through his eyes.

There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values.

Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let’s not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources

The more government takes in taxes, the less incentive people have to work. What coal miner or assembly-line worker jumps at the offer of overtime when he knows Uncle Sam is going to take 60...

Some of you may remember that in my early days, I was sort of a bleeding heart liberal. Then I became a man and put away childish ways.

Admittedly, there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal...

Why is it inflationary if the people keep their own money, and spend it the way they want to, [but] not inflationary if the government takes it and spends it the way it wants to?

There you go again

Who says, Here’s the key, there’s the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want

The best minds in government? If any were, business would hire them away.

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

Touch you I must or I’ll burst.

How stands the city on this winter night?

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won

without God, there is no virtue because there’s no prompting of the conscience. And without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we...

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

General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear...

We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added

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

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!

Most of my dreams came true.

This kind of weapon can’t help but have an effect on the population as a whole

In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to make both horrendous mistakes and glorious celebrations.

Cures were developed for which there were no known diseases. (Commenting on Congress and the federal budget, 1981)

We are for aiding our allies by sharing some of our material blessings with those nations which share in our fundamental beliefs, but we are against doling out money government to government, creating bureaucracy, if...

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer...

Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it

This mad dog of the Middle East.

Make no mistake, abortion-on-demand is not a right guaranteed by the Constitution. No serious scholar, including one disposed to agree with the Court’s result, has argued that the framers of the Constitution intended to create...

The Soviet Union would remain a one-party nation even if an opposition party were permitted — because everyone would join that party.

We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America’s classrooms in the first place.

When I’ve heard all I need to make a decision, I don’t take a vote. I make a decision.

We should declare war on North Vietnam – we could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas

Most of my dreams came true. (told to biographer Lou Cannon in 1991)

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

Now you hear a lot of jokes about Silent Cal Coolidge, … but I think that the joke is on the people that make jokes because if you look at his record, he cut the...

And make no mistake about it, this attack was not just against ourselves or the Republic of Korea. This was the Soviet Union against the world and the moral precepts which guide human relations among...

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they’re sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive