I never thought it was my style or the words I used that made a difference. It was the content. I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things.

For the eight years I was president I never let my dream of a nuclear-free world fade from my mind.

To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors.

Honey, I forgot to duck

If you don't know whether a body is alive or dead, you would never bury it. I think this consideration itself should be enough for all of us to insist on protecting the unborn.

When people tell me that I became President on January 20th, 1981, I feel I have to correct them. You don't become President of the United States. You are given temporary custody of an institution called the Presidency, which belongs to our people.

Admittedly, there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face.