"Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here."

"We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward."

"I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future."

"The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make."

"The loss of life will be irreplaceable."

"I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people."

"Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children."

"Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it."

"I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix."

"Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists."

"Someday I intend to read all those books I've written."

"The mind is a terrible thing!"

"Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child."

"They need help, and we have helped, and we are here to help. And we are helping, and we're going to continue to help."

"Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it."

"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made."

"I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman."

"You do the policy, I'll do the politics."

"You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be."

"I don't watch it, but I know enough to comment on it."

"Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton."

"We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made."

"People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history."

"Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!"

"Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself."

"Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts."

"I've never professed to be anything but an average student."

"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change."

"We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country."

"Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less."

"The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda."

"I deserve respect for the things I did not do."

"I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service."

"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century."

"We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world."

"Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins."