We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

On the basis of both values and interests, the natural relationship between Islam and the United States is one of friendship.

Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring.

History teaches, perhaps, very few clear lessons. But surely one such lesson learned by the world at great cost is that aggression, unopposed, becomes a contagious disease.

The first year I was in office, only about 800 people came out of the Soviet Union, Jews. By the third year I was in office... second year, 1979, 51,000 came out of the Soviet Union. And every one of the human rights heroes - I'll use the word - who have come out of the Soviet Union, have said it was a turning point in their lives, and not only in the Soviet Union but also in places like Czechoslovakia and Hungary and Poland [they] saw this human rights policy of mine as being a great boost to the present democracy and freedom that they enjoy.

I can get up at 8am and be rested... or I can get up at 5am and be President.