I am determined to seek self-sufficiency in energy as an urgent national priority. My goal is to make America independent of foreign energy sources by 1985.

I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process.

There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.

I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned.

All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.