I like photographers - you don't ask questions. (To a gathering of the White House News Photographers Association)

Baseball is our national pastime, that is if you discount political campaigning.

Our loyalty lies with little taxpayers, not big spenders. What our critics really believe is that those in Washington know better how to spend your money than you, the people, do. But we're not going to let them do it, period.

If I'd gotten the job I wanted at Montgomery Ward, I suppose I would never have left Illinois.

We don't need more politicians insisting we have deficits because you're not taxed enough. Those deficits ballooned from an economy that didn't grow enough and from 50 years of government spending too much.

I have decided that whatever time I may have left is left for Him.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.