And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.

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.

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.

My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

If you have a setback, and you're not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could happen again.

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.