You can't be for big government, big taxes and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.

For the eight years I was president I never let my dream of a nuclear-free world fade from my mind.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

People do not make wars; governments do.

A drastic reduction in the deficit...will take place in the fiscal year '82.

[A woman waiting for him in the Kremlin asked Gobachev] "Was communism invented by a politician or a scientist?" [He replied] "Well, a politician." She said, "That explains it. The scientist would have tried it on mice first."

I have been one who believes that abortion is the taking of a human life . . . . The fact that they could not resolve the issue of when life begins was a finding in and of itself. If we don't know, then shouldn't we morally opt on the side that it is life? If you came upon an immobile body and you yourself could not determine whether it was dead or alive, I think that you would decide to consider it alive until somebody could prove it was dead. You wouldn't get a shovel and start covering it up. And I think we should do the same thing with regard to abortion.