Help the Cubans to the utmost counseling his successor while handing over the reins. We cannot let Castro's government go on.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience.

Our economy is the result of millions of decisions we all make every day about producing, earning, saving, investing, and spending.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Why are we proud? We are proud, first of all, because from the beginning of this Nation, a man can walk upright, no matter who he is, or who she is. He can walk upright and meet his friend - or his enemy; and he does not fear that because that enemy may be in a position of great power that he can be suddenly thrown in jail to rot there without charges and with no recourse to justice. We have the habeas corpus act, and we respect it.

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.