Are you better off now than you were four years ago?

With freedom comes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual.

An informed patriotism is what we want.

The torch of liberty is hot; warms those who hold it high; burns those who try to extinguish it.

Facts are stubborn things.

We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients.

If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.

Could there be a better answer to the stupidity of Karl Marx than millions of workers individually sharing in the ownership of the means of production.

Meanwhile, what about the workers in those state monopolies that are being put up for sale? I am reminded of a technique for employee ownership that has worked well for many U.S. companies. It goes by various names, but the best known is "Employee Stock Ownership Program," or ESOP.

Could there be anything resembling a free enterprise economy, if wealth and property were concentrated in the hands of a few, while the great majority owned little more than the shirts on their backs?

Could there be anything but widespread misery, where a privileged few controlled a nation's wealth, while millions labored for a pittance, and millions more were desperate for want of employment?

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

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'.

Don't be afraid to see what you see.

How can a president not be an actor?

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

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.

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

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.

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

When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

If you're explaining, you're losing.