Conservatives were brought up to hate deficits and justifiably so. We've long thought there are two things in Washington that are unbalanced - the budget and the liberals.

Unless and until it can be proven that an unborn child is not a living human being, can we justify assuming without proof that it isn't? No one has yet offered such proof; indeed, all the evidence is to the contrary.

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

The bill's a textbook example of special interest pork barrel politics at work, and I have no choice but to veto it.

Our spirit is back, but we haven't reinstitutionalized it. We've got to do a better job of getting across that America is freedom - freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise. And freedom is special and rare. It's fragile; it needs production [protection].

Government is not a solution to our problem government is the problem.

For the eight years I was president I never let my dream of a nuclear-free world fade from my mind.