The 20th century ended with a single surviving model of human progress.

You have to be optimistic about golf. I mean it's physically demanding, particularly if you're on one leg. But it's psychologically demanding regardless of your physical infirmities. I mean, it's a tough sport. You've got to be disciplined and optimistic. And if you have a bad hole, you've got to be optimistic that you'll do well on the next hole.

If people want to get to know me better, they've got to know my parents and the values my parents instilled in me, and the fact that I was raised in West Texas, in the middle of the desert, a long way away from anywhere, hardly. There's a certain set of values you learn in that experience.

The United States of America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

I'm the only president who really put it out in the State of the Union and was very specific about how I felt we ought to do it.

The business pages of American newspapers should not read like a scandal sheet.