Revenues should be increased not by increasing the tax rates on the individual but by building a bigger economy for everybody.

I'd like to harness their youthful energy with a strap.

Trust the people -- that is the crucial lesson of history.

Our status as a free society and world power is not based on brute strength. When we've taken up arms, it has been for the defense of freedom for ourselves and for other peaceful nations who needed our help. But now, faced with the development of weapons with immense destructive power, we've no choice but to maintain ready defense forces that are second to none. Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher.

Freedom-loving people around the world must say . . . I am a refugee in a crowded boat foundering off the coast of Vietnam. I am Laotian, a Cambodian, a Cuban, and a Miskito Indian in Nicaragua. I, too, am a potential victim of totalitarianism.

I know all the bad things that happened in that war. I was in uniform four years myself.

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