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

We can have peace and brotherly love by accepting our responsibility to preserve freedom.

I don't know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it. It reminded me a lot of my job as governor.

[A woman waiting for him in the Kremlin asked Gobachev] "Was communism invented by a politician or a scientist?" [He replied] "Well, a politician." She said, "That explains it. The scientist would have tried it on mice first."

What we don't need is more spending, and what we don't need are taxes, and what we do need is a lot less of both.

A state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens; the more decent the citizens, the more decent the state.

Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or economically as the private sector.