We had a dog who was named Pushinka, who was given to my father by a Soviet official. And we trained that dog to slide down the slide we had in the back of the White House. Sliding the dog down that slide is probably my first memory.

There is no other airport in the world which serves so many people and so many airplanes. This is an extraordinary airport. . . it could be classed as one of the wonders of the modern world.

Success has many fathers.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Wealth is the means, and people are the ends. All our material riches will avail us little if we do not use them to expand the opportunities of our people.

The Federal Government is the people and the budget is a reflection of their need.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.