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.

George Burns . . . the only man I know who does fool Mother Nature.

The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.

It ought to be remembered by all [that] the Games more than 2,000 years ago started as a means of bringing peace between the Greek city-states. And in those days, even if a war was going on, they called off the war in order to hold the Games. I wish we were still as civilized.

Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense.

We will remain steady. We will pursue every avenue in the search for peace and stability.

What's happening in Cuba is not a failure of the Cuban people. It's a failure of Fidel Castro and the Communists.