The messages on our banners in 1979 - freedom, opportunity, family, enterprise, ownership - are now inscribed on the banners in Leipzig, Warsaw, Budapest and even Moscow.

I exercise my right as a free citizen to spend my own money in my own way, so that I can go on the day, the time, to the doctor I choose and get out fast.

The Third World is very much like the First World - just poorer: what works for the West will work for the rest as well.

My policies are based not on some economics theory, but on things I and millions like me were brought up with: an honest day's work for an honest day's pay; live within your means; put by a nest egg for a rainy day; pay your bills on time; support the police.

If there is one instance in which a foreign policy I pursued met with unambiguous failure, it was my policy on German reunification.

I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life.

Let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so.