No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

America has always been greatest when we dared to be great. We can reach for greatness again. We can follow our dreams to distant stars, living and working in space for peaceful, economic, and scientific gain. Tonight, I am directing NASA to develop a permanently manned space station, and to do it within a decade.

Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.

Our National Motto - 'In God We Trust' - was not chosen lightly. It reflects a basic recognition that there is a divine authority in the universe to which this nation owes homage.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American dream that wealth is denied to no one, that each individual has the right to fly as high as his strength and ability will take him.

I oppose registration for the draft... because I believe the security of freedom can best be achieved by security through freedom.