"Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world"
"Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders"
"Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States"
"Don't be afraid to see what you see"
"Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man"
"Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years"
"Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged"
"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves"
"Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them"
"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"
"Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing"
"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book"
"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"
"People do not make wars; governments do"
"Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means"
"One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it"
"Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is"
"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"
"Latinos are Republican. They just don't know it yet"
"It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?"
"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"
"It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available"
"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first"
"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"
"Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders"
"Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man"
"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"
"I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself"
"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"
"How can a president not be an actor?"
"History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap"
"Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer"
"Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them"
"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"
"Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives"
"But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret"
"Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement"
"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"
"All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk"
"All great change in America begins at the dinner table"
"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"
"A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?"
"A people free to choose will always choose peace"
