If Reagan wins, I'd sell the farm and buy a bomb shelter.

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.

And above all, above all, honest work must be rewarded by a fair and just tax system. The tax system today does not reward hard work: it penalizes it. Inherited or invested wealth frequently multiplies itself while paying no taxes at all. But wages on the assembly line or in farming the land, these hard-earned dollars are taxed to the very last penny.

I met my wife in South Dakota.

I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.

It's possible to dazzle a crowd if you really work at it. But that is no qualification for leadership. Hitler was a master of crowds.