The federal government's most useful role is not to rush into a program of excessive increases in public expenditures, but to expand the incentives and opportunities for private expenditures.

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable.

The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century... unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today.

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.

We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good or bad, that we demand and deserve.

The rising tide lifts all the boats.