State problems should involve state solutions.

Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again.

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

A university is a place where ancient tradition thrives alongside the most revolutionary ideas. Perhaps as no other institution, a university is simultaneously committed to the day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow.

If I'd gotten the job I wanted at Montgomery Ward, I suppose I would never have left Illinois.

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.

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.