In golf, you keep your head down and follow through. In the vice presidency, you keep your head up and follow through. It's a big difference.

I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

What the media wants and what the media demands of Christians is very simply this: your silence.

I feel that this is my first year, that next year is an election year, that the third year is the mid point, and that the fourth year is the last chance I'll have to make a record since the last two years; I'll be a candidate again. Everything I do in those last two years will be posturing for the election. But right now I don't have to do that.

A good debater can be a good communicator. You have to communicate when you're president of the United States, and communicate effectively with the American people, and with the world.

America is great, because America is free.

Want to hear a sad story about the Dukakis campaign? The governor of Massachusetts, he lost his top naval advisor last week. His rubber ducky drowned in the bathtub.