America needs jobs and opportunity, not make-work and handouts.

I like photographers - you don't ask questions. (To a gathering of the White House News Photographers Association)

I believe the highest aspiration of man should be individual freedom and the development of the individual.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

How can a president not be an actor?

Our liberty springs from and depends upon an abiding faith in God.

Directly down the lawn and accross the Ellipse from the White House are those ordered, classic lines of the Jefferson Memorial and the eyes of the 19-foot statue that gaze directly into the White House, a reminder to any of us who might occupy that mansion of the quality of mind and generosity of heart that once abided there and has been so rarely seen there again.