Are you better off today than you were four years ago?

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

With freedom goes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself.

Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal.

It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history . . . . [It is] the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history, as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.

Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory.

There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.