If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. But if you provide a child with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that you're liable to be given more money to do it with. Well, we've discovered that money alone isn't the answer.

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.

Free enterprise is a rough and competitive game. It is a hell of a lot better than a government monopoly.

I don't want to do a TV series. It's no fun working from dawn to sunset every day. An occasional movie would be fine, and then I'll see what might develop on the political front.

Let me make our goal in this program very clear: jobs, jobs, jobs, and more jobs. Our policy has been and will continue to be: What is good for the American worker is good for America.

You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.