Government is not the solution, but rather the cause of our problems.

I like photographers - you don't ask questions. (To a gathering of the White House News Photographers Association)

America has never gotten in a war because we were too strong.

We're not just discussing limits on a further increase of nuclear weapons; we seek, instead, to reduce their number. We seek the total elimination one day of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth.

Today, we're taking a break from the concerns and the bustle of the work-a-day world. But we're also making a new beginning... Let us renew our faith that as free men and women we still have the power to better our lives, and let us resolve to face the challenges of the new year holding that conviction firmly in our hearts. That, after all, is our greatest strength and our greatest gift as Americans.

Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.

The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...