To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world’s strongest economy.

Touch you I must or I’ll burst, This morning I’m ambitious, proud, energetic and very madly in love with you.

We have so many people who can’t see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‘fat cat’ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‘public-spirited philanthropist’.

Let me speak plainly: The United States of America is and must remain a nation of openness to people of all beliefs. Our very unity has been strengthened by this pluralism. That’s how we began;...

The current tax code is a daily mugging

The march of freedom and democracy . . . will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.

The United States remains the last best hope for a mankind plagued by tyranny and deprivation. America is no stronger than its people — and that means you and me. Well, I believe in you,...

How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

I consider all proposals for government action with an open mind before voting “no.”

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

an entirely appropriate means of calling attention to the abortion tragedy.

Those who can lose the most usually do the least to change that.

They have answered the stirrings of liberty with brute force, killings, mass arrests, and the setting up of concentration camps.

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

I’ve heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?

Perhaps you and I have lived with this miracle too long to be properly appreciative. Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by...

I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.

My fellow Americans, there’s an old saying that “”nothing spreads so quickly as a rumor,”” so I thought it was time to speak with you directly, to tell you first hand about our dealings with...

Governments don’t control things. A government can’t control the economy without controlling people.

A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane, and smells like Cheetah

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