You will be competing against athletes from many nations. But, most important, you are competing against yourself. All we expect is for you to do your very best, to push yourself just one second faster, one notch higher, one inch further.

My dream is to see the day when nuclear weapons will be banished from the face of the Earth.

To do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom.

A nation's greatness is measured not just by its gross national product or military power, but by the strength of its devotion to the principles and values that bind its people and define their character.

Our system freed the individual genius of man. Released him to fly as high & as far as his own talent & energy would take him. We allocate resources not by government. decision but by the millions of decisions customers make when they go into the market. place to buy. If something seems too high-priced we buy something else. Thus resources are steered toward those things the people want most at the price they are willing to pay. It may not be a perfect system but it's better than any other that's ever been tried.

You know, if Nancy Davis hadn't come along when she did, I would have lost my soul.

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