The Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I'll say no, and they'll push, and I'll say no, and they'll push again and I'll say to them, read my lips, no new taxes.

This is a fact: Strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice; isolation in the pursuit of security is no virtue.

I'm not what you call your basic intellectual.

I think I'd be a better president because I was in combat.

My vision of a 'new world order' foresees a United Nations with a revitalized peacekeeping function.

But the biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in our lives, is this: By the grace of God, America won the Cold War.

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.