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

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

It ought to be remembered by all [that] the Games more than 2,000 years ago started as a means of bringing peace between the Greek city-states. And in those days, even if a war was going on, they called off the war in order to hold the Games. I wish we were still as civilized.

The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...

You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly. So you learn. You put things in perspective. You pull your energies together. You change. You go forward. My fellow Americans, I have a great deal that I want to accomplish with you and for you over the next two years. And, the Lord willing, that's exactly what I intend to do.

We're not just discussing limits on a further increase of nuclear weapons; we seek, instead, to reduce their number. We seek the total elimination one day of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth.

Someone told me it was a round thing that gobbles up money. I thought that was Tip O'Neill.