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In Case Anybody Asks You About My Position On Capital Punishment, You Can Tell Them I Favor It; And If They Want To Know Why, You Can Tell Them This Story.

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There Is Purpose And Worth To Each And Every Life.

It Doesn't Do Good To Open Doors For Someone Who Doesn't Have The Price To Get In. If He Has The Price, He May Not Need The Laws. There Is No Law Saying The Negro Has To Live In Harlem Or Watts.

Only When The Human Spirit Is Allowed To Invent And Create, Only When Individuals Are Given A Personal Stake In Deciding Economic Policies And Benefiting From Their Success - Only Then Can Societies Remain Economically Alive, Dynamic, Prosperous, Progressive And Free.

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It Doesn't Require Expropriation Or Confiscation Of Private Property Or Business To Impose Socialism On A People. What Does It Mean Whether You Hold The Deed Or The Title To Your Business Or Property If The Government Holds The Power Of Life And Death Over That Business Or Property?

For Centuries The Bible's Emphasis On Compassion And Love For Our Neighbor Has Inspired Institutional And Governmental Expressions Of Benevolent Outreach Such As Private Charity, The Establishment Of Schools And Hospitals, And The Abolition Of Slavery.

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There Can Be No Greater Good Than The Quest For Peace, And No Finer Purpose Than The Preservation Of Freedom.

The Criminal Element Now Calculates That Crime Really Does Pay.

I've Often Said There's Nothing Better For The Inside Of A Man Than The Outside Of A Horse.

We Are At War With The Most Dangerous Enemy That Has Ever Faced Mankind In His Long Climb From The Swamp To The Stars, And It Has Been Said If We Lose That War, And In So Doing Lose This Way Of Freedom Of Ours, History Will Record With The Greatest Astonishment That Those Who Had The Most To Lose Did The Least To Prevent Its Happening.

One Picture Is Worth 1,000 Denials.

No Government Ever Voluntarily Reduces Itself In Size.

People Are Tired Of Wasteful Government Programs And Welfare Chiselers, And They Are Angry About The Constant Spiral Of Taxes And Government Regulations, Arrogant Bureaucrats, And Public Officials Who Think All Of Mankind's Problems Can Be Solved By Throwing The Taxpayers Dollars At Them.

I Don't Think Any Of Us Should Forget That The Security Of America Is Our Highest Responsibility.

The Federalist Society Is Changing The Culture Of Our Nation's Law Schools. You Are Returning The Values And Concepts Of Law As Our Founders Understood Them To Scholarly Dialogue, And Through That Dialogue, To Our Legal Institutions.

The National Democratic Leadership Is Going So Far Left, They've Left America. Don't Let Them Bury The American Dream In Their Graveyard Of Gloom And Envy.

I Hope Americans Will Read And Study The Bible In The Coming Year. It's My Firm Belief That The Enduring Values, As I Say, Presented In Its Pages Have A Great Meaning For Each Of Us And For Our Nation.

The American Dream Is Not That Every Man Must Be Level With Every Other Man. The American Dream Is That Every Man Must Be Free To Become Whatever God Intends He Should Become.

By Emphasizing The Importance Of A Common Language, We Safeguard A Proud Legacy And Help To Ensure That America's Future Will Be As Great As Her Past.

History Teaches That Wars Begin When Governments Believe The Price Of Aggression Is Cheap. To Keep The Peace, We And Our Allies Must Be Strong Enough To Convince Any Potential Aggressor That War Could Bring No Benefit, Only Disaster.

Because You Won't Get Gun Control By Disarming Law Abiding Citizens. There's Only One Way To Get Real Gun Control: Disarm The Thugs And The Criminals, Lock Them Up, And If You Don't Actually Throw Away The Key, At Least Lose It For A Long Time.

Christopher Columbus Was Looking For A Passage To India, But He Landed In America. He Landed In The Wrong Place, And When He Got Back, He Wasn't Sure Where He'd Been. But Most Important Of All, He Did It On Someone Else's Money.

And Children, If Your Parents Haven't Been Teaching You What It Means To Be An American, Let 'em Know And Nail 'em On It. That Would Be A Very American Thing To Do.

The Man Who Puts Into The Marriage Only Half Of What He Owns Will Get That Out.

Government Is Like A Baby. An Alimentary Canal With A Big Appetite At One End And No Sense Of Responsibility At The Other.

Doverey, No Proverey - Trust But Verify.

Our System Freed The Individual Genius Of Man. Released Him To Fly As High & As Far As His Own Talent & Energy Would Take Him. We Allocate Resources Not By Government. Decision But By The Millions Of Decisions Customers Make When They Go Into The Market. Place To Buy. If Something Seems Too High-priced We Buy Something Else. Thus Resources Are Steered Toward Those Things The People Want Most At The Price They Are Willing To Pay. It May Not Be A Perfect System But It's Better Than Any Other That's Ever Been Tried.

We Are A Nation That Has A Government-not The Other Way Around. And That Makes Us Special Among The Nations Of The Earth.

Our Problems Are Both Acute And Chronic, Yet All We Hear From Those In Positions Of Leadership Are The Same Tired Proposals For More Government Tinkering, More Meddling And More Control---all Of Which Led Us To This State In The First Place... We Must Have The Clarity Of Vision To See The Difference Between What Is Essential And What Is Merely Desirable, And Then The Courage To Bring Our Government Back Under Control And Make It Acceptable To The People.

Today A Newcomer To The State Is Automatically Eligible For Our Many Aid Programs The Moment He Crosses The Border.

Great Nations Which Fail To Meet Their Responsibilities Are Consigned To The Dustbin Of History. We Grew From That Small, Weak Republic Which Had As Its Assets Spirit, Optimism, Faith In God And An Unshakeable Belief That Free Men And Women Could Govern Themselves Wisely. We Became The Leader Of The Free World, An Example For All Those Who Cherish Freedom.

A Bird On A Tether, No Matter How Long The Rope, Can Always Be Pulled Back.

When Those Who Are Governed Do Too Little, Those Who Govern Can - And Often Will - Do Too Much.

The Difference Between Them And Us Is That We Want To Check Government Spending And They Want To Spend Government Checks.

One Of The Traditional Methods Of Imposing Statism Or Socialism On A People Has Been By Way Of Medicine. It’s Very Easy To Disguise A Medical Program As A Humanitarian Project, Most People Are A Little Reluctant To Oppose Anything That Suggests Medical Care For People Who Possibly Can’t Afford It.

Tyranny, Like Fog In The Well Known Poem, Often Creeps In Silently 'on Little Cat Feet.'

If History Teaches Us Anything, It Teaches That Simple-minded Appeasement Or Wishful Thinking About Our Adversaries Is Folly.

It Was The Hard Work Of Our People, The Freedom They Enjoyed And Their Faith In God That Built This Country And Made It The Envy Of The World. In All Of Our Great Cities And Towns Evidence Of The Faith Of Our People Is Found: Houses Of Worship Of Every Denomination Are Among The Oldest Structures. While Never Willing To Bow To A Tyrant, Our Forefathers Were Always Willing To Get To Their Knees Before God. When Catastrophe Threatened, They Turned To God For Deliverance. When The Harvest Was Bountiful The First Thought Was Thanksgiving To God.

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The Doctor Begins To Lose Freedoms; It's Like Telling A Lie, And One Leads To Another. First You Decide That The Doctor Can Have So Many Patients. They Are Equally Divided Among The Various Doctors By The Government. But Then The Doctors Aren't Equally Divided Geographically, So A Doctor Decides He Wants To Practice In One Town And The Government Has To Say To Him You Can't Live In That Town, They Already Have Enough Doctors. You Have To Go Someplace Else. And From Here It Is Only A Short Step To Dictating Where He Will Go.

Directly Down The Lawn And Accross The Ellipse From The White House Are Those Ordered, Classic Lines Of The Jefferson Memorial And The Eyes Of The 19-foot Statue That Gaze Directly Into The White House, A Reminder To Any Of Us Who Might Occupy That Mansion Of The Quality Of Mind And Generosity Of Heart That Once Abided There And Has Been So Rarely Seen There Again.

Fascism Was Really The Basis For The New Deal.

We Don't Have A Trillion-dollar Debt Because We Haven't Taxed Enough; We Have A Trillion-dollar Debt Because We Spend Too Much.

If History Teaches Anything, It Teaches Self-delusion In The Face Of Unpleasant Facts Is Folly.

He Will Long Be Remembered As One Of The Great Christian Thinkers Of Our Century, With A Childlike Faith And A Profound Compassion Toward Others. It Can Rarely Be Said Of An Individual That His Life Touched Many Others And Affected Them For The Better; It Will Be Said Of Francis Schaeffer That His Life Touched Millions Of Souls And Brought Them To The Truth Of Their Creator.

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So In Your Discussions Of The Nuclear Freeze Proposals, I Urge You To Beware The Temptation Of Pride - The Temptation Blithely To Declare Yourselves Above It All And Label Both Sides Equally At Fault, To Ignore The Facts Of History And The Aggressive Impulses Of An Evil Empire, To Simply Call The Arms Race A Giant Misunderstanding And Thereby Remove Yourself From The Struggle Between Right And Wrong, Good And Evil.

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The District Of Columbia Is One Gigantic Ear.

It Is My Fervent Goal And Hope... That We Will Someday No Longer Have To Rely On Nuclear Weapons To Deter Aggression And Assure World Peace. To That End The United States Is Now Engaged In A Serious And Sustained Effort To Negotiate Major Reductions In Levels Of Offensive Nuclear Weapons With The Ultimate Goal Of Eliminating These Weapons From The Face Of The Earth.

Yes, The Deficit Doctors Have Their Scalpels Out All Right, But They're Not Poised Over The Budget. That's As Fat As Ever And Getting Fatter. What They're Ready To Operate On Is Your Wallet.

America Was Founded By People Who Believe That God Is Their Rock Of Safety.

When The Labor Department Is Forced To Relent And Let These Visitors Do This Work It Is Of Course All Legal. But It Makes One Wonder About The Illegal Alien Fuss. Are Great Numbers Of Our Unemployed Really Victims Of The Illegal Alien Invasion Or Are Those Illegal Tourists Actually Doing Work Our Own People Won't Do? One Thing Is Certain In This Hungry World; No Regulation Or Law Should Be Allowed If It Results In Crops Rotting In The Field For Lack Of Harvesters.

Well, I Think There Has To Be Some (gun) Control.

Form And Substance Are Opposite Ends Of The Same Coin.

Words Are Even More Feeble On This Memorial Day, For The Sight Before Us Is That Of A Strong And Good Nation That Stands In Silence And Remembers Those Who Were Loved And Who, In Return, Loved Their Countrymen Enough To Die For Them.

When Our Founding Fathers Passed The First Amendment, They Sought To Protect Churches From Government Interference. They Never Intended To Construct A Wall Of Hostility Between Government And The Concept Of Religious Belief Itself.

Going To College Offered Me The Chance To Play Football For Four More Years.

I Am An Environmentalist. ... I Am For Clean Air.

Well I've Said It Before And I'll Say It Again America's Best Days Are Yet To Come. Our Proudest Moments Are Yet To Be. Our Most Glorious Achievements Are Just Ahead.

We're Told About A Woman's Right To Control Her Own Body. But Doesn't The Unborn Child Have A Higher Right, And That Is To Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit Of Happiness?

Pursuit Of Happiness

You Can Tell Alot About A Fellow's Character By His Way Of Eating Jellybeans.

We Have To Realize That This Country In Its Private Sector Has Been Fighting The Most Successful War On Poverty The World Has Seen For The Last 200 Years.

Are You Entitled To The Fruits Of Your Own Labor Or Does Government Have Some Presumptive Right To Spend And Spend And Spend?

The Bill's A Textbook Example Of Special Interest Pork Barrel Politics At Work, And I Have No Choice But To Veto It.

Since I Came To The White House, I Got Two Hearing Aids, A Colon Operation, Skin Cancer, A Prostate Operation, And I Was Shot. The Damn Thing Is, I've Never Felt Better In My Life.

Government Can And Must Provide Opportunity, Not Smother It; Foster Productivity; Not Stifle It.

I Thought The Function Of The Government Was To Promote The General Welfare, Not To Provide It.

All Of Us Should Remember That The Federal Government Is Not Some Mysterious Institution Comprised Of Buildings, Files And Paper. The People Are The Government. What We Create We Ought To Be Able To Control.

A Nation's Greatness Is Measured Not Just By Its Gross National Product Or Military Power, But By The Strength Of Its Devotion To The Principles And Values That Bind Its People And Define Their Character.

The Despicable North Korean Attack In Rangoon Deprived Us Of Trusted Advisers And Friends. So Many Of Those Who Died Had Won Admirers In America As They Studied With Us Or Guided Us With Their Counsel. I Personally Recall The Wisdom And Composure Of Foreign Minister Lee, With Whom I Met In Washington Just A Few Short Months Ago. To The Families And Countrymen Of All Those Who Were Lost, America Expresses Its Deep Sorrow.

Some Years Ago A Top Ford Official Was Showing The Late Walter Reuther Through The Very Automates Plant In Cleveland, Ohio And He Said To Him Jokingly, "walter, You'll Have A Hard Time Collecting Union Dues From These Machines." And Walter Said, "you Are Going To Have More Trouble Trying To Sell Automobiles To Them." Both Of Them Let It Stop There. There Was A Logical Answer To That ... The Owners Of The Machines Could Buy Automobiles And If You Increase The Number Of Owners You Increase The Number Of Consumers.

After Watching The State Of The Union Address The Other Night [1994], I'm Reminded Of The Old Adage That Imitation Is The Sincerest Form Of Flattery. Only In This Case, It's Not Flattery, But Grand Larceny: The Intellectual Theft Of Ideas That You And I Recognize As Our Own. Speech Delivery Counts For Little On The World Stage Unless You Have Convictions, And, Yes, The Vision To See Beyond The Front Row Seats.

We've Been A Free People Living Under The Law, With Faith In Our Maker And In Our Future. I've Said Before That The Most Sublime Picture In American History Is Of George Washington On His Knees In The Snow At Valley Forge. That Image Personifies A People Who Know That It's Not Enough To Depend On Our Own Courage And Goodness; We Must Also Seek Help From God, Our Father And Preserver.

Please Assure Me That You Are All Republicans.

I Don't Want To Do A Tv Series. It's No Fun Working From Dawn To Sunset Every Day. An Occasional Movie Would Be Fine, And Then I'll See What Might Develop On The Political Front.

I Never Thought It Was My Style Or The Words I Used That Made A Difference. It Was The Content. I Wasn't A Great Communicator, But I Communicated Great Things.

Peace Is Not Absence Of Conflict, It Is The Ability To Handle Conflict By Peaceful Means.

Our American Tradition Of Neighbor Helping Neighbor Has Always Been One Of Our Greatest Strengths And Most Noble Traditions.

America Stands Unique In The World: The Only Country Not Founded On Race But On A Way, An Ideal. Not In Spite Of But Because Of Our Polyglot Background, We Have Had All The Strength In The World. That Is The American Way.

I Have Learned That One Of The Most Important Rules In Politics Is Poise - Which Means Looking Like An Owl After You Have Behaved Like A Jackass.

When A Child Loses His Parent, They Are Called An Orphan. When A Spouse Loses Her Or His Partner, They Are Called A Widow Or Widower. When Parents Lose Their Child, Their Isn't A Word To Describe Them. This Month Recognizes The Loss So Many Parents Experience Across The United States And Around The World. It Is Also Meant To Inform And Provide Resources For Parents Who Have Lost Children Due To Miscarriage, Ectopic Pregnancy, Molar Pregnancy, Stillbirths, Birth Defects, Sids, And Other Causes.

Although I Held Public Office For A Total Of Sixteen Years, I Also Thought Of Myself As A Citizen-politician, Not A Career One. Every Now And Then When I Was In Government, I Would Remind My Associates That "when We Start Thinking Of Government As 'us' Instead Of 'them,' We've Been Here Too Long." By That I Mean That Elected Officeholders Need To Retain A Certain Skepticism About The Perfectibility Of Government.

The Struggle Now Going On For The World Will Never Be Decided By Bombs Or Rockets, By Armies Or Military Might. The Real Crisis We Face Today Is A Spiritual One; At Root, It Is A Test Of Moral Will And Faith.

You Know, If Nancy Davis Hadn't Come Along When She Did, I Would Have Lost My Soul.

For Three Decades, We Have Sought To Solve The Problems Of Unemployment Through Government Planning, And The More The Plans Fail, The More The Planners Plan.

My Belief Has Always Been... That Wherever In This Land Any Individual's Constitutional Rights Are Being Unjustly Denied, It Is The Obligation Of The Federal Government-at Point Of Bayonet If Necessary-to Restore That Individual's Constitutional Rights

I Want You To Know That Also I Will Not Make Age An Issue Of This Campaign. I Am Not Going To Exploit, For Political Purposes, My Opponent's Youth And Inexperience.

I Know That Some Believe That Voluntary Prayer In Schools Should Be Restricted To A Moment Of Silence. We Already Have The Right To Remain Silent - We Can Take Our Fifth Amendment.

Many A Man Has Failed Because He Had His Wishbone Where His Backbone Should Have Been.

The People's Instincts Are Still Right. You See Them Come To The Rescue Of Someone-a Child Who Falls Down A Well-hundreds Of People Rush To Help, And Labor And Equipment Are Volunteered Without Any Thought Of Who's Going To Pay For It. This Is A Basic Feeling In Americans. They Don't Stand Back In Such A Circumstance And Ask What The Government's Going To Do About It.

There Are No Degrees Of Honesty.

You Hear A Lot Of Jokes Every Once In A While About 'silent Cal Coolidge.' The Joke Is On The People Who Make The Jokes. Look At His Record. He Cut The Taxes Four Times. We Had Probably The Greatest Growth And Prosperity That We've Ever Known. I Have Taken Heed Of That Because If He Did That By Doing Nothing, Maybe That's The Answer.

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.

Facts Are Stupid Things Stubborn Things, I Should Say.

There Is Nothing Wrong With America That Americans Can't Fix.

Our National Motto - 'in God We Trust' - Was Not Chosen Lightly. It Reflects A Basic Recognition That There Is A Divine Authority In The Universe To Which This Nation Owes Homage.

Regimes Planted By Bayonets Do Not Take Root... Our Military Strength Is A Prerequisite To Peace, But Let It Be Clear We Maintain This Strength In The Hope It Will Never Be Used, For The Ultimate Determinant In The Struggle That's Now Going On In The World Will Not Be Bombs And Rockets But A Test Of Wills And Ideas, A Trial Of Spiritual Resolve, The Values We Hold, The Beliefs We Cherish, The Ideals To Which We Are Dedicated.

In This Springtime Of Hope, Some Lights Seem Eternal; America's Is.

Our Nation Was Built And Civilized By Men And Women Who Used Guns In Self-defense And In Pursuit Of Peace. One Wonders Indeed, If The Rising Crime Rate, Isn't Due As Much As Anything To The Criminal's Instinctive Knowledge That The Average Victim No Longer Has Means Of Self-protection.

For An America Of Wisdom That Honors The Family, Knowing That If The Family Goes, So Goes Our Civilization.

Of The Four Wars In My Lifetime, None Came About Because The U.s. Was Too Strong.

I Oppose Registration For The Draft... Because I Believe The Security Of Freedom Can Best Be Achieved By Security Through Freedom.

Those Who Advocate More And More Government Regulation Have Been Experimenting For 40 Years, Trying To Create An Economic System In Which Everyone Can Somehow Be Made More Prosperous By The Toil Of Someone Else.

Abortion Is Advocated Only By Persons Who Have Themselves Been Born.

I Just Don't Think It's Good For Us To Be Run Out Of Town. (refusing To Cancel Secretary Of State Visit To Moscow)

This Is Not To Say That The Government Should Confiscate From The "haves" And Bestow Upon The "have-nots", Beyond The Requirements Of A Compassionate Welfare Program To Provide For Those Who Cannot Provide For Themselves. Far From It. But It Is To Say That Our Duty Is To Foster A Strong, Vibrant Wealth-producing Economy Which Operates In Such A Way That New Additions To Wealth Accrue To Those Who Presently Have Little Or No Ownership Stake In Their Country.

The Future Doesn't Belong To The Light-hearted. It Belongs To The Brave.

May All Of You As Americans Never Forget Your Heroic Origins, Never Fail To Seek Divine Guidance, And Never Lose Your Natural God-given Optimism.

Divine Guidance

My Fellow Citizens, Our Nation Is Poised For Greatness. We Must Do What We Know Is Right, And Do It With All Our Might. Let History Say Of Us: "these Were Golden Years - When The American Revolution Was Reborn, When Freedom Gained New Life, And America Reached For Her Best."

I've Noticed That Everyone Who Is For Abortion Has Already Been Born.

The Years Ahead Will Be Great Ones For Our Country, For The Cause Of Freedom And The Spread Of Civilization. The West Will Not Contain Communism, It Will Transcend Communism. We Will Not Bother To Denounce It, We'll Dismiss It As A Sad, Bizarre Chapter In Human History Whose Last Pages Are Even Now Being Written.

God...should Never Have Been Expelled From America's Schools. As We Struggle To Teach Our Children...we Dare Not Forget That Our Civilization Was Built By Men And Women Who Placed Their Faith In A Loving God. If Congress Can Begin Each Day With A Moment Of Prayer...so Then Can Our Sons And Daughters.

While Other [military] Alliances Have Been Formed To Win Wars, Our Fundamental Purpose Is To Prevent War While Preserving And Extending The Frontiers Of Freedom.

What We Have Found In This Country, And Maybe We're More Aware Of It Now, Is One Problem That We've Had, Even In The Best Of Times, And That Is The People Who Are Sleeping On The Grates, The Homeless, You Might Say, By Choice.

Every Dollar The Federal Government Does Not Take From Us, Every Decision It Does Not Make For Us, Will Make Our Economy Stronger, Our Lives More Abundant, Our Future More Free.

America Is A Melting Pot, And Education Has Been A Mainspring For Our Democracy And Freedom, A Means Of Providing Gifts Of Knowledge And Opportunity To All Citizens, No Matter How Humble Their Background, So They Could Climb Higher, Help Build The American Dream, And Leave A Better Life For Those Who Follow.

Trees Cause Pollution.

Piling Up Material Goods Cannot Fill The Emptiness Of Lives Which Have No Confidence Or Purpose.

Inspirational Life

Isn't It Interesting That All Of Those People Who Support The Choice Of Abortion Have Already Been Born?

We Seek A Constitutional Amendment To Permit Voluntary School Prayer. God Should Never Have Been Expelled From America's Classrooms In The First Place.

Once People Who Have Been Deprived Of Basic Freedom Taste A Little Of It, They Want All Of It.

The United States And The Freedom For Which It Stands, The Freedom For Which They Died, Must Endure And Prosper. Their Lives Remind Us That Freedom Is Not Bought Cheaply. It Has A Cost; It Imposes A Burden. And Just As They Whom We Commemorate Were Willing To Sacrifice, So Too Must We - In A Less Final, Less Heroic Way - Be Willing To Give Of Ourselves.

We Are Never Defeated Unless We Give Up On God.

Christian Inspirational

I Have Wondered At Times What The Ten Commandments Would Have Looked Like If Moses Had Run Them Through The Us Congress.

How Does It Feel To Be The 's Third Choice? Humiliating? You Could Have Thrown A Dart. That's How Close They Were. We Had So Many Excellent Candidates.

And One More Idea Which May Be Laughed And Sneered At In Some Supposedly Sophisticated Circles, But I Just Have To Believe That The Loving God Who Has Blessed This Land And Thus Made Us A Good And Caring People Should Never Have Been Expelled From America's Classrooms. It's Time To Welcome Him Back, Because Whenever We've Opened Ourselves And Trusted In Him, We've Gained Not Only Moral Courage But Intellectual Strength.

I Hope You're All Republicans.

Government Is Not The Answer To The Problem - It Is The Problem.

It's Said That Prayer Can Move Mountains. Well, It's Certainly Moved The Hearts And Minds Of Americans In Their Times Of Trial And Helped Them To Achieve A Society That, For All Its Imperfections, Is Still The Envy Of The World And The Last, Best Hope Of Mankind.

We Are Participating In The Orderly Transfer Of Administrative Authority By The Direction Of The People. And This Is The Simple Magic Which Makes A Commonplace Routine A Near Miracle To Many Of The World

This Country Was Founded And Built By People With Great Dreams And The Courage To Take Great Risks.

There Are Some Who've Forgotten Why We Have A Military. It's Not To Promote War, It's To Be Prepared For Peace.

I'm Convinced That Today The Majority Of Americans Want What Those First Americans Wanted: A Better Life For Themselves And Their Children; A Minimum Of Government Authority.

Do What's Right And You'll Please Some Of The People And Astound The Rest.

You And I, As Individuals, Can, By Borrowing, Live Beyond Our Means, But For Only A Limited Period Of Time. Why, Then, Should We Think That Collectively, As A Nation, We're Not Bound By That Same Limitation? We Must Act Today In Order To Preserve Tomorrow.

The Glory Of This Land Has Been Its Capacity For Transcending The Moral Evils Of Our Past. For Example, The Long Struggle Of Minority Citizens For Equal Rights, Once A Source Of Disunity And Civil War, Is Now A Point Of Pride For All Americans. We Must Never Go Back. There Is No Room For Racism, Anti-semitism, Or Other Forms Of Ethnic And Racial Hatred In This Country.

I, For One, Resent It When A Representative Of The People Refers To You And Me, The Free Men And Women Of This Country, As 'the Masses.'

I Notice That All Of The People Who Support Abortion Are Already Born.

The Torch Of Liberty Is Hot; Warms Those Who Hold It High; Burns Those Who Try To Extinguish It.

When Cruelty Is Inflicted On Innocent People, It Discredits Whatever Cause.

But There Are Advantages To Being Elected President. The Day After I Was Elected, I Had My High School Grades Classified Top Secret.

If You Can't Summarize An Issue On One Page, You Don't Understand The Issue Well Enough.

If Some Among You Fear Taking A Stand Because You Are Afraid Of Reprisals From Customers, Clients, Or Even Government, Recognize That You Are Just Feeding The Crocodile Hoping He'll Eat You Last.

... A Faceless Mass, Waiting For Handouts.

Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall. And Get A Massage - You Look Really Stressed

I've Always Believed That A Lot Of The Trouble In The World Would Disappear If We Were Talking To Each Other Instead Of About Each Other.

Within The Covers Of The Bible Are The Answers For All The Problems Men Face.

I Believe In A Sound, Strong Environmental Policy That Protects The Health Of Our People And A Wise Stewardship Of Our Nation's Natural Resources.

Our Nation Will Prosper Or Decline In Direct Proportion To Our Selection Of Leaders Who Are Guided By The Holy Spirit. If We Fail To Select Godly Leaders Our Destiny Will Surely Be As That Of The Roman Empire.

Well, I Would - If They Realized That We - Again If - If We Led Them Back To That Stalemate Only Because Our Retaliatory Power, Our Seconds, Or Strike At Them After Our First Strike, Would Be So Destructive They They Couldn't Afford It, That Would Hold Them Off.

I Miss Going To Church, But I Think The Lord Understands.

Whether Meeting With Leaders And Parents Concerned About Drugs In Bonn, Lisbon, Or With The Holy Father At The Vatican, Or Doing A Pretty Fair Flamenco In Madrid, I Think Nancy's One Of The Best Ambassadors America's Ever Had.

Excellence Does Not Begin In Washington.

One Of The Traditional Methods Of Imposing Statism Or Socialism Has Been By Way Of Medicine....if You Don't Do This, One Of These Days You And I Are Going To Spend Our Sunset Years Telling Our Children And Our Children's Children What It Was Like In American When Men Were Free.

I Think The Presidency Is An Institution Over Which You Have Temporary Custody.

Politics And Morality Are Inseparable. And As Morality's Foundation Is Religion, Religion And Politics Are Necessarily Related. We Need Religion As A Guide. We Need It Because We Are Imperfect, And Our Government Needs The Church, Because Only Those Humble Enough To Admit They're Sinners Can Bring To Democracy The Tolerance It Requires In Order To Survive.

I'm Not A Politician By Profession. I Am A Citizen Who Decided I Had To Be Personally Involved.

There Are Only Two Things That The Liberals Don't Understand: The Things That Change And The Things That Don't.

Our Country And State Have A Special Obligation To Work Toward The Stabilization Of Our Own Population So As To Credibly Lead Other Parts Of The World Toward Population Stabilization.

Thomas Jefferson Made A Comment About The Presidency And Age. He Said That One Should Not Worry About One's Exact Chronological Age In Reference To His Ability To Perform One's Task. And Ever Since He Told Me That, I Stopped Worrying.

We Are For Aiding Our Allies By Sharing Of Our Material Blessings With Those Nations Which Share In Our Fundamental Beliefs, But We're Against Doling Out Money Government To Government, Creating Bureaucracy, If Not Socialism, All Over The World. We Set Out To Help 19 Countries. We're Helping 107. We've Spent 146 Billion Dollars. With That Money, We Bought A 2 Million Dollar Yacht For Haile Selassie. We Bought Dress Suits For Greek Undertakers, Extra Wives For Kenya[n] Government Officials. We Bought A Thousand Tv Sets For A Place Where They Have No Electricity.

The Arts And Humanities Teach Us Who We Are And What We Can Be. They Lie At The Very Core Of The Culture Of Which We're A Part.

If You're Explaining, You're Losing.

Elvis Epitomised America, And For That We Shall Be Eternally Grateful. There Will Never Be Anyone Else Like Him. Let's All Rejoice In His Music.

I Hope The People On Wall Street Will Pay Attention To The People On Main Street. If They Do, They Will See There Is A Rising Tide Of Confidence In The Future Of America.

Politics Is, For Me, Forgive And -as You May Have Heard- Sometimes Forget.

I Believe That George Washington Knew The City Of Man Cannot Survive Without The City Of God; That The Visible City Will Perish Without The Invisible City.

There Is A Flickering Spark In Us All Which, If Struck At Just The Right Age...can Light The Rest Of Our Lives, Elevating Our Ideals, Deepening Our Tolerance, And Sharpening Our Appetite For Knowledge About The Rest Of The World. Educational And Cultural Exchanges...provide A Perfect Opportunity For This Precious Spark To Grow, Making Us More Sensitive And Wiser International Citizens Through Our Careers.

The Future Belongs To The Free.

Wherever A Beautiful Soul Has Been There Is A Trail Of Beautiful Memories.

We Must Never Remain Silent In The Face Of Bigotry. We Must Condemn Those Who Seek To Divide Us. In All Quarters And At All Times, We Must Teach Tolerance And Denounce Racism, Anti-semitism And All Ethnic Or Religious Bigotry Wherever They Exist As Unacceptable Evils. We Have No Place For Haters In America -- None, Whatsoever.

When Government Gets Too Big, Freedom Is Lost. Government Is Supposed To Be The Servant. But When A Government Can Tax The People With No Limit Or Restraint On What The Government Can Take, Then The Government Has Become The Master.

Anyone That's Ever Had Their Kitchen Done Over Knows That It Never Never Gets Done As Soon As You Wish It Would.

If The Soviet Union Let Another Political Party Come Into Existence, They Would Still Be A One-party State, Because Everybody Would Join The Other Party.

A Nation Without Borders Is No Nation At All.

Our Leaders Must Remember That Education Doesn't Begin With Some Isolated Bureaucrat In Washington. It Doesn't Even Begin With State Or Local Officials. Education Begins In The Home, Where It Is A Parental Right And Responsibility.

With Our Eyes Fixed On The Future, But Recognizing The Realities Of Today, We Will Achieve Our Destiny To Be As A Shining City On A Hill For All Mankind To See.

And There Is The Matter Of Abortion. We Must With Calmness And Resolve Help The Vast Majority Of Our Fellow Americans Understand That The More Than 112 Million Abortions Performed In America In 1980 Amount To A Great Moral Evil, An Assault On The Sacredness Of Human Life.

We Don't Lump People By Groups Or Special Interests. And Let Me Add, In The Party Of Lincoln There Is No Room For Intolerance And Not Even A Small Corner For Anti-semitism Or Bigotry Of Any Kind. Many People Are Welcome In Our House, But Not The Bigots.

There Are Many Well-meaning People Today Who Work At Placing An Economic Floor Beneath All Of Us So That No One Shall Exist Below A Certain Level Or Standard Of Living, And Certainly We Don't Quarrel With This. But Look More Closely And You May Find That All Too Often These Well-meaning People Are Building A Ceiling Above Which No One Shall Be Permitted To Climb And Between The Two Are Pressing Us All Into Conformity, Into A Mold Of Standardized Mediocrity.

The Men Of Normandy Had Faith That What They Were Doing Was Right, Faith That They Fought For All Humanity, Faith That A Just God Would Grant Them Mercy On This Beachhead Or The Next. It Was The Deep Knowledge - And Pray God We Have Not Lost It - That There Is A Profound Moral Difference Between The Use Of Force For Liberation And The Use Of Force For Conquest.

If A Tax Hike Makes It To My Desk, I'll Veto It In Less Time Than It Takes Vanna White To Turn The Letters V-e-t-o!

Don't Let Anyone Tell You That America's Best Days Are Behind Her - That The American Spirit Has Been Vanquished. We've Seen It Triumph Too Often In Our Lives To Stop Believing In It Now.

The Problem Is Not That People Are Taxed Too Little, The Problem Is That Government Spends Too Much.

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