While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
— Ronald Reagan
Trust, but verify.
No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
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.
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
We are never defeated unless we give up on God.
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.
We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
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.
A people free to choose will always choose peace.
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
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.
There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.
Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
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.
We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
