"Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure."

"If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under."

"Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States."

"All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk."

"The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away."

"One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it."

"Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face."

"Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them."

"All great change in America begins at the dinner table."

"Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged."

"There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder."

"I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'."

"Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence."

"They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong."

"I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life."

"A people free to choose will always choose peace."

"If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement."

"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."

"Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets."

"I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary."

"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."

"Trust, but verify."

"To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy."

"Man is not free unless government is limited."

"We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions."

"I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete."

"We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent."

"Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close."

"There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right."

"No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting."

"While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future."

"We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free."

"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first."

"History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap."

"When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat."

"Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out."

"The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job."

"Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man."

"Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them."

"It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas."

"Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is."

"Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means."

"Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15."

"Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying."

"It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?"

"Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world."

"Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders."

"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone."

"The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination."

"I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress."