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.

My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the security of the United States. This danger will not go away it will grow worse, much worse, if we fail to take action now.

I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future.

The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives.

One hundred nations in the UN have not agreed with us on just about everything that's come before them, where we're involved, and it didn't upset my breakfast at all.

Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.

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