A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget....As the national income grows, the federal government will ultimately end up with more revenues. Prosperity is the real way to balance our budget. By lowering tax rates, by increasing jobs and income, we can expand tax revenues and finally bring our budget into balance.

I can't see that it's wrong to give him a little legal experience before he goes out to practice law.

No country can possibly move ahead, no free society can possibly be sustained, unless it has an educated citizenry whose qualities of mind and heart permit it to take part in the complicated and increasingly sophisticated decisions that pour not only upon the President and upon the Congress, but upon all the citizens who exercise the ultimate power.

Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage.

A rising tide (in the economy) lifts all boats.

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.

Forbidden fruit tastes sweet, but its aftertaste is bitter.