In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.

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

Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

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.

An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.

I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.

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.