There's no question I am an idealist, which is another way of saying 'I am an American.'

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war, it's to be prepared for peace.

Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed.

Don't let the doom criers and the cynics persuade you that the best is past.

The glory of this land has been its capacity for transcending the moral evils of our past. For example, the long struggle of minority citizens for equal rights, once a source of disunity and civil war, is now a point of pride for all Americans. We must never go back. There is no room for racism, anti-Semitism, or other forms of ethnic and racial hatred in this country.

An old Russian woman goes into Kremlin, gets an audience with Mikhail Gorbachev and says, In America anyone can go to the White House, walk up to Reagan's desk and say, 'I don't like the way you are running the country.' Gorbachev replied, You can do the same thing in the Soviet Union. You can go into the Kremlin, walk up to my desk and say 'I don't like the way Reagan is running his country.'