Learning is good in and of itself...the mothers of the Jewish ghettoes of the east would pour honey on a book so the children would know that learning is sweet. And the parents who settled hungry Kansas would take their children in from the fields when a teacher came.

I believe with all my heart that one cannot be America's president without a belief in God, without the strength that your faith gives you.

We consider it vital that the community of nations be drawn together in an orderly, disciplined, rational way to review the history of our global environment, to assess the potential for future climate change, and to develop effective programs.

We are not here to enjoy the things on earth, but to pass them around. The people who do it are the happiest people you know!

I will never apologize for the United States of America - I don't care what the facts are. Said after 'Vincennes' shot down an Iranian Airliner.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

Communism didn't fall. It was pushed.