I know I will go to hell, because I pardoned Richard Nixon.

Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?... Let us show that we can temper together those opposite elements of liberty and restraint into one consistent whole. Let us set an example for the world of a law-abiding America glorying in its freedom as well as its respect for law.

It feels like getting a back massage from the Grim Reaper: one must get comfortable with the most horrifying things in the world.

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

Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.

I think that sports, particularly football, gave me an opportunity to be out front, to be a leader, which helped me later on, when I got into politics.