The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.

Someone asked me whether I was aware of all the people out there who were praying for the President. And I had to say, "Yes, I am. I've felt it. I believe in intercessory prayer." But I couldn't help but say to that questioner after he'd asked the question that - or at least say to them that if sometimes when he was praying he got a busy signal, it was just me in there ahead of him.

I just don't think it's good for us to be run out of town. (Refusing to cancel Secretary of State visit to Moscow)

Never let the things you can't do, stop you from doing what you can.

Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.

I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation that anyone's child, even from the humblest of families, could grow up to own a business or corporation.

Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay the price.