I was 21 and looking for work in 1932, one of the worst years of the Great Depression. And I can remember one bleak night in the thirties when my father learned on Christmas Eve that he'd lost his job. To be young in my generation was to feel that your future had been mortgaged out from under you, and that's a tragic mistake we must never allow our leaders to make again.

Well, it [evolution] is a theory, it is a scientific theory only, and it has in recent years been challenged in the world of science and is not yet believed in the scientific community to be as infallible as it once was believed. But if it was going to be taught in the schools, then I think that also the biblical theory of creation, which is not a theory but the biblical story of creation, should also be taught.

Our National Motto - 'In God We Trust' - was not chosen lightly. It reflects a basic recognition that there is a divine authority in the universe to which this nation owes homage.

The White House is the leakiest place I've ever been in. (On special measures to ensure secrecy of plans to bomb Libya)

I believe that the most essential element of our defense of freedom is our insistence on speaking out for the cause of religious liberty.

My golf-loving friend Bob Hope asked me what my handicap was, so I told him - the Congress.

We now know that inflation results from all that deficit spending.