If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.

President Ronald Reagan on his 1980 opponent: "I had a dream the other night. I dreamed that Jimmy Carter came to me and asked why I wanted his job. I told him I didn't want his job. I want to be President."

Sure, losing an election hurts, but I've experienced worse. And at an age when every day is precious, brooding over what might have been is self-defeating. In conceding the 1996 election, I remarked that "tomorrow will be the first time in my life I don't have anything to do." I was wrong. Seventy-two hours after conceding the election, I was swapping wisecracks with David Letterman on his late-night show.

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

The purpose of a tax cut is to leave more money where it belongs: in the hands of the working men and working women who earned it in the first place

We're trying to get good pictures. Don't worry very much about what I say.

In what might be a motto of those who sought the presidency and lost, Ted Kennedy once said, "Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is."