It is the tendency of Government to grow, for practices and programs to become the nearest thing to eternal life we'll see on this earth.

When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.

The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we're a part.

Bureaucracy is adept at protecting its nest.

America has always been greatest when we dared to be great. We can reach for greatness again. We can follow our dreams to distant stars, living and working in space for peaceful, economic, and scientific gain. Tonight, I am directing NASA to develop a permanently manned space station, and to do it within a decade.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

We remember those who were called upon to give all a person can give, and we remember those who were prepared to make that sacrifice if it were demanded of them in the line of duty, though it never was. Most of all, we remember the devotion and gallantry with which all of them ennobled their nation as they became champions of a noble cause.