If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty.

What the media are telling you to be afraid of are the wrong things. Fear is a necessary ingredient of our survival instincts.

There's nothing inherently or patently wrong with anybody who does well, works hard, earns a living, betters themselves. I'm not against any of these things. It's about how you make that money, and then what you do with it.

Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English.

There should be no private health insurance companies operating for profit.

I have enormous respect for anyone who would offer to sacrifice their life to defend my right to live. Is there any greater gift one can give another?

Under Reagan came the idea of putting your pension plan in the stock market, which wasn't a guaranteed pension.