My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn't gone to military school, maybe I wouldn't have decided to get with the program. Maybe I'd be running a bulldozer, rather than going on and doing something more.

In 27 years of reporting from Washington, I've never heard a President admit he made a mistake.

But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.

It wasn't until the late '70s that a lot of people knew me.

There was a little bit of ham in me. And there's a lot of people say there's a lot of ham in me.

My personal opinion is that guns kill people.

News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.