My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage.

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.

I just don't think we should go hellfire damnation around the globe freeing people, unless it is directly related to our own national security.

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

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 am a Ford, not a Lincoln.

The tough decisions that a president has to make in the Oval Office are in no way related to the capability of a person to do well on television. On the other hand, the capability of a person to project favorably on television enhances that person's odds of being elected so he can serve in the Oval Office. So you can't ignore the talents, one, to be very effective on television, and on the other hand, to be very effective as an operating president.