"I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon."

"We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child."

"One picture is worth 1,000 denials."

"I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse."

"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."

"We are never defeated unless we give up on God."

"If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen."

"Facts are stubborn things."

"Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement."

"It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available."

"I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself."

"To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will."

"The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts."

"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."

"My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out."

"How can a president not be an actor?"

"No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology."

"Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty."

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."

"Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse."

"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."

"We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country."

"Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing."

"Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives."

"The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much."

"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."

"Latinos are Republican. They just don't know it yet."

"You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed."

"People do not make wars; governments do."

"Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders."

"We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added."

"Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."

"Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith."

"Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong."

"Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have."

"We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas."

"Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music."

"There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect."

"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."

"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."

"Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem."

"Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours."

"Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man."

"Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer."

"Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known."

"You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans."

"But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret."

"No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!"

"Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."