We know that this mad dog of the Middle East has a goal of a world revolution. (On Muammar Qaddafi of Libya)

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

For too long, the victims of crime have been the forgotten persons of our criminal justice system.

You get a little stir crazy during the week.

Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.

When a business or an individual spends more than it makes, it goes bankrupt. When government does it, it sends you the bill. And when government does it for 40 years, the bill comes in two ways: higher taxes and inflation. Make no mistake about it, inflation is a tax and not by accident.

If not us, who? And if not now, when?