"For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas."

"I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone."

"Things are more like today than they have ever been before."

"I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am."

"I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers."

"Truth is the glue that holds government together."

"Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together."

"My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over."

"It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected."

"There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things."

"If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave."

"Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule."

"My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage."

"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."

"History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion."

"Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men."

"I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember."

"I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned."

"A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him."

"All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future."

"In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end."

"The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election."

"Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time."

"An American tragedy in which we all have played a part."

"When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say."

"I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio."