We are a nation that has a government-not the other way around. And that makes us special among the nations of the earth.

I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience.

Too often, people forget the basic fact of life: all those good things we enjoy come from the ache in [our] backs and the willingness to shoulder great personals risks.

I like photographers - you don't ask questions. (To a gathering of the White House News Photographers Association)

We may be the generation that sees Armageddon.

Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive . . . [It] reeks with injustice, and is fundamentally un-American

America's best days lie ahead. You ain't seen nothing yet.