World Affairs Councils are great organizations. They help keep people throughout our country alive to important developments in world affairs and underscore that, in the country, we stay engaged and we are part of the world.

Nothing ever gets settled in this town (Washington). It's not like running a company or even a university. It's a seething debating society, in which the debate never stops; in which people never give up, including me, and that's the atmosphere in which you administer.

You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion.

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

Between 1980 and 1990, the number of countries that were classified as 'free' or 'mostly free' increased by about 50%.

It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye.

Ideas matter a lot, the underlying ideas that stand behind policies. When you don't have ideas, your policies are flip-flopping all over the place. When you do have ideas, you have more consistency. And when you have the right ideas - then you can get somewhere (reagan had the right ideas).