Ronald Reagan was an excellent leader of our nation during challenging times at home and abroad.

Real assistance is to help people to help themselves. We can't do everything for everybody, but there is room for all who try to make it.

I have always felt that the real purpose of government is to enhance the lives of people and that a leader can best do that by restraining government in most cases instead of enlarging it at every opportunity.

I strongly support the feeding of children.

We . . . declared our independence 200 years ago, and we are not about to lose it now to paper shufflers and computers.

Let America symbolize humanity's struggle to conquer nature and master technology. The time has now come for our Government to facilitate the individual's control over his or her future - and of the future of America.

Obviously, it's a great privilege and pleasure to be here at the Yale Law School Sesquicentennial Convocation. And I defy anyone to say that and chew gum at the same time.