I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.

I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.

I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.

But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the war news. We'd not had a radio up to that time. I was born in 1934, so I was seven years of age.

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

My personal opinion is that guns kill people.

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