If adults want to take such chances (with marijuana) that is their business

Our country is great because it is built on principles of self-reliance, opportunity, innovation, and compassion for others.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. [We'd] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.

But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all human history. In the Communist world, we see failure, technological backwardness, declining standards of health, even want of the most basic kind - too little food. Even today, the Soviet Union still cannot feed itself. After these four decades, then, there stands before the entire world one great and inescapable conclusion: Freedom leads to prosperity. Freedom replaces the ancient hatreds among the nations with comity and peace. Freedom is the victor.

A drastic reduction in the deficit...will take place in the fiscal year '82.

Even now I wonder what I might have accomplished if I'd studied harder