I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less.

I've talked to you on a number of occasions about the economic problems our nation faces, and I am prepared to tell you it's in a hell of a mess-we're not connected to the press room yet, are we?

I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

With all this talk about the supposed strain in relations [with the Soviet Union], there is an inference that somehow it is our fault. But we didn't kill Russian civilians by shooting down a civilian airplane. We didn't attempt to conquer an adjacent country to ours. We didn't walk out on negotiations and refuse to give a date for when we would resume.