You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

The most fundamental paradox is that if we're never to use force, we must be prepared to use it and to use it successfully. We Americans don't want war and we don't start fights. We don't maintain a strong military force to conquer or coerce others. The purpose of our military is simple and straightforward: we want to prevent war.

Meaningful work, not welfare, is every American's hope, and we have a continuing responsibility to make those hopes a lasting reality.

I told you once that [our marriage] was like an adolescent's dream of what marriage should be like. That hasn't changed.

I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers... Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them for ourselves.

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.