Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

Let historians not record that when America was the most powerful nation in the world we passed on the other side of the road and allowed the last hopes for peace and freedom of millions of people to be suffocated by the forces of totalitarianism. And so tonightto you, the great silent majority of my fellow AmericansI ask for your support.

At home, we must reject the mistaken notion - a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long - that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem.

By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

We should set goals within the limits of our resources while working to the limits of our powers.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.