If there's one thing the American people aren't lacking, it is courage.
Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
When people tell me that I became President on January 20th, 1981, I feel I have to correct them. You don't become President of the United States. You are given temporary custody of an institution called the Presidency, which belongs to our people.
You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
One of the worst mistakes anybody can make is to bet against Americans.
I like photographers - you don't ask questions. (To a gathering of the White House News Photographers Association)