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

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

The American taxing structure, the purpose of which was to serve the people, began instead to serve the insatiable appetite of government. If you will forgive me, you know someone has once likened government to a baby. It is an alimentary canal with an appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit. They can provide you shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you're ill, all the things guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave. They don't understand that we also dream.

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

I am an environmentalist. ... I am for clean air.

Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism.