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

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.

My goal is for a cooperative world at peace, using its resources to build, not to destroy.

I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln. My addresses will never be as eloquent as Mr. Lincoln's. But I will do my very best to equal his brevity and his plain speaking.

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

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

He was one of the few political leaders I have ever met whose public speeches revealed more than his private conversations. [On Ronald Reagan]