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

A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours.

Some months before I declared, I asked for a meeting and crossed the border to meet with the president of Mexico. I did not go with a plan. I went, as I said in my announcement address, to ask him his ideas - how we could make the border something other than a locale for a nine-foot fence.

America is still an eagle, and she's ready to soar again.

I sometimes think if someone appealed the Ten Commandments to some of our courts, they would rule - 'Thou shalt not, unless you feel strongly to the contrary'.

The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.

Yes, the deficit doctors have their scalpels out all right, but they're not poised over the budget. That's as fat as ever and getting fatter. What they're ready to operate on is your wallet.