You have won the Cold War. ... [Your] underappreciated valor [helped] topple the Berlin Wall, and bring down dictators the world over. ... For the past four decades the world behind the Iron Curtain ... looked to Americans for hope, and America looked to you to get the job done. Today, the free world says thank you.

The horizon is out there somewhere and you keep chasing it, looking for it and working for it.

I used to think that seniority was a terrible thing when I didn't have any.

When it's all over, it's not who you were ... it's whether you made a difference.

If you're hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You'll get the same kind of feeling and you won't have to pay.

At my age you find yourself looking back from time to time and you begin to appreciate some of the things that happened to you.

I think the voters believe that when you become president of the United States, you have a higher obligation and a higher standard than anybody in the world. And if you violate that standard, they're going to remember it on election day.