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.

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.

Barry Goldwater once said ruefully, and I know how he feels. "It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be President . . . except me."

It's a lot more fun winning. It hurts to lose...

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

Our intent will not be to create gridlock. Oh, except maybe from time to time.

The California proposition [Prop. 187] is one I would agree with. That's the easiest way to put it.