Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

The highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist, is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall where they may.

Budget deficits are not caused by wild-eyed spenders, but by slow economic growth and periodic recessions. And any new recession would break all deficit records. In short, it is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low, and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now.

War and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barriers.

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.

While they came from a variety of religious backgrounds and held a wide variety of religious beliefs, each of our presidents in his own way has placed a special trust in God.

I can assure you that every degree of mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted to the long-range interests of the United States and to the cause of freedom around the world.