I don't know why anyone would want to study the expansion of the universe.

The White House is the leakiest place I've ever been in. (On special measures to ensure secrecy of plans to bomb Libya)

What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

Our system freed the individual genius of man. Released him to fly as high & as far as his own talent & energy would take him. We allocate resources not by government. decision but by the millions of decisions customers make when they go into the market. place to buy. If something seems too high-priced we buy something else. Thus resources are steered toward those things the people want most at the price they are willing to pay. It may not be a perfect system but it's better than any other that's ever been tried.

Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or economically as the private sector.

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession... and I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.