"The day will come - and it is not far off - when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, when a black man or woman will sit in the Oval Office. When that day comes, the most remarkable thing about it will be how naturally it occurs."

"I'm not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it's a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don't believe that's the way one oughta campaign, I've never done that."

"Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that."

"A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree."

"We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky."

"We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America."

"Read my lips: no new taxes."

"I like a colorful sock. I'm a sock man."

"I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli."

"I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it."

"The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It's amazing. A great honor."

"I'm a conservative, but I'm not a nut about it."

"It's much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself."

"Our God is a forgiving God."

"One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans."

"I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most."

"Old guys can still do fun things."

"I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them."

"America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world."

"Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here."

"I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war."

"We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what's right. Freedom is right."

"I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it's hard."

"Poland should be strong and prosperous and independent and play its proper role as a great nation in the heart of Europe."