By instinct and tradition, I don't like the thing. I like to look someone in the eye.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

Gun bans don't disarm criminals, gun bans attract them.

Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

The Queen of England is Defender of the Faith but the President of the United States is Defender of the Constitution, which defends all faiths.

The idea behind Reaganomics is this: a rising tide lifts all yachts.

Do not despair. In every defeat are found the seeds of victory.

You have got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because when you quote him accurately it is called mudslinging.

I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.

Whatever his private beliefs and religious practice, a president must be the guardian of the laws which ensure America's religious diversity.

[Running for President is] physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III

All limits in life are self imposed.

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody anywhere anytime.

Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is.

God often guides by what He doesn't provide.

All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance.

Evening words are not like to morning.

If woman lost us Eden, such As she alone restore it.

Natural freedoms are but just: There's something generous in mere lust.

That was a great time, the summer of '71 - I can't remember it, but I'll never forget it!

All we have-ourselves-to Him, and if that be all, that is enough.