I think there are some things ... that may even be distorted in the practice, such as some affirmative action programs becoming quota systems. And I'm old enough to remember when quotas existed in the United States for the purpose of discrimination, and I don't want to see that happen again.

If you can't summarize an issue on one page, you don't understand the issue well enough.

We're more than friends and neighbors and allies; we are kin, who together have built the most productive relationship between any two countries in the world today.

Anyone who seeks success or greatness should first forget about both and seek only the truth. The rest will follow.

My belief has always been... that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation of the federal government-at point of bayonet if necessary-to restore that individual's constitutional rights

Whether meeting with leaders and parents concerned about drugs in Bonn, Lisbon, or with the Holy Father at the Vatican, or doing a pretty fair flamenco in Madrid, I think Nancy's one of the best ambassadors America's ever had.

George Burns . . . the only man I know who does fool Mother Nature.