I've always believed that we were, each of us, put here for a reason, that there is a plan, somehow a divine plan for all of us. I know now that whatever days are left to me belong to him.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

America's best days are yet to come.

The First Amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people from religion; that amendment was written to protect religion from government tyranny. . . But now we're told our children have no right to pray in school. Nonsense. The pendulum has swung too far toward intolerance against genuine religious freedom. It is time to redress the balance.

For the eight years I was president I never let my dream of a nuclear-free world fade from my mind.

Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will.

I just don't think it's good for us to be run out of town. (Refusing to cancel Secretary of State visit to Moscow)