We must adopt reforms which will expand the range of opportunities for all Americans. We can fulfill the American dream only when each person has a fair chance to fulfill his own dreams. This means equal voting rights, equal employment opportunity and new opportunities for expanded ownership, because in order to be secure in their human rights, people need access to property rights.

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit ... The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity.

As far as I am concerned now, I have no enemies in the press whatsoever.

I believe in building bridges, but we should only build our end of the bridge.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.