"The future will be better tomorrow."

"It's a very good historical book about history."

"Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever."

"If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure."

"We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'."

"It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America."

"We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say."

"For NASA, space is still a high priority."

"What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is."

"El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice."

"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls."

"In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!"

"The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other."

"When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there."

"I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible."

"When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame."

"If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime."

"The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive."

"This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!"

"It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago."

"We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America."

"It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back."

"Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win."

"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'."