I am told that tens of thousands of prayer meetings are being held on this day; for that I am deeply grateful. We are a nation under God, and I believe God intended for us to be free. It would be fitting and good, I think, if on each inaugural day in future years it should be declared a day of prayer.

For a time, we forgot the American dream isn't one of making government bigger, it's keeping faith with the mighty spirit of free people under God

Show me an executive that works long hard hours and I'll show you a bad executive.

Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.

An actor knows two important things - to be honest in what he is doing and to be in touch with the audience. That's not bad advice for a politician either.

Too often, people forget the basic fact of life: all those good things we enjoy come from the ache in [our] backs and the willingness to shoulder great personals risks.

For three decades, we have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.