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I think the presidency is an institution over which you have temporary custody.
Bobby Kennedy is so concerned with poverty because he didn't have any as a kid.
The man who puts into the marriage only half of what he owns will get that out.
Permanent brain damage is one of the inevitable results of the use of marijuana.
The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind.
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. And get a massage - you look really stressed
Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things.
Baseball is our national pastime, that is if you discount political campaigning.
We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.
But I also happen to be someone who believes in tithing--the giving of a tenth .
The most confident person in any transaction ALWAYS introduces themselves first.
We've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion, but what's important.
Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.
The United States trades more with the province of Ontario alone than with Japan.
To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors.
. . . Government should do only those things the people cannot do for themselves.
Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
In this new world economy, national boundaries are increasingly becoming obsolete.
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
We are forever indebted to those who have given their lives that we might be free.
Show me an executive that works long hard hours and I'll show you a bad executive.
Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory.
Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah.
If we get the federal government out of the classroom, maybe we'll get God back in.
You know, if Nancy Davis hadn't come along when she did, I would have lost my soul.
Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.
If you want more of something, subsidize it; if you want less of something, tax it.
I have a feeling that we are doing better in the war than the people have been told.
No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
The purpose of America is to unleash the full talent and genius of every individual.
Money can't buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories.
A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours.
Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed.
It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of what they know isn't so
I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
To do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom.
Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no.
We don't celebrate dependence day on the Fourth of July. We celebrate Independence Day.
The person who pays an ounce of principle for a pound of popularity gets badly cheated.
You can achieve anything in politics provided that you let someone else take the credit.
Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Tyranny, like fog in the well known poem, often creeps in silently 'on little cat feet.'
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard.
There's no question I am an idealist, which is another way of saying 'I am an American.'