I've always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other.

The bill's a textbook example of special interest pork barrel politics at work, and I have no choice but to veto it.

For too long, too many people dependent on Social Security have been cruelly frightened by individuals seeking political gain through demagoguery and outright falsehood, and this must stop.

Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay the price.

I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years.

So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride - the temptation blithely to declare yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong, good and evil.

We will never disarm any American who seeks to protect his or her family from fear and harm.