The time has come to match outgo to income, instead of always doing it the other way around.

We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life -- the unborn -- without diminishing the value of all human life . . . there is no cause more important.

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

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.

Since I came to the White House, I got two hearing aids, a colon operation, skin cancer, a prostate operation, and I was shot. The damn thing is, I've never felt better in my life.

We may be the generation that sees Armageddon.