When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

How can a president not be an actor?

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

Don't be afraid to see what you see.

I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.

Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.

You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard.

There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.

I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service.

I don't have too much time for fiction.

This administration is totally colorblind.

Could there be anything but widespread misery, where a privileged few controlled a nation's wealth, while millions labored for a pittance, and millions more were desperate for want of employment?

Could there be anything resembling a free enterprise economy, if wealth and property were concentrated in the hands of a few, while the great majority owned little more than the shirts on their backs?

Meanwhile, what about the workers in those state monopolies that are being put up for sale? I am reminded of a technique for employee ownership that has worked well for many U.S. companies. It goes by various names, but the best known is "Employee Stock Ownership Program," or ESOP.

Could there be a better answer to the stupidity of Karl Marx than millions of workers individually sharing in the ownership of the means of production.

If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.

We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients.

Facts are stubborn things.

I'll be like Scarlett O'Hara-I'll think about it tomorrow.

The torch of liberty is hot; warms those who hold it high; burns those who try to extinguish it.

Republicans believe the best way to assure prosperity is to generate more jobs. The Democrats believe in more welfare.

An informed patriotism is what we want.

With freedom comes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual.

Are you better off now than you were four years ago?

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

I don't want to do a TV series. It's no fun working from dawn to sunset every day. An occasional movie would be fine, and then I'll see what might develop on the political front.

The United Sates has much to offer the third world war.

To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors.

We need more Democrats in the Senate -Like Custer needed more arrows.

There are simple answers to the nation's problems, but not easy ones.

For too long, too many people dependent on Social Security have been cruelly frightened by individuals seeking political gain through demagoguery and outright falsehood, and this must stop.