How can a president not be an actor?

I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future.

When you see all that rhetorical smoke billowing up from the Democrats, well ladies and gentleman, I'd follow the example of their nominee; don't inhale.

I've always believed that this blessed land was set apart in a special way, that some divine plan placed this great continent here between the oceans to be found by people from every corner of the Earth who had a special love for freedom and the courage to uproot themselves, leave homeland and friends, to come to a strange land. And coming here they created something new in all the history of mankind-a land where man is not beholden to government, government is beholden to man.

Government is not the answer to the problem - it IS the problem.

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

I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it.