I believe the world benefits from American leadership. I believe this next century should be an American century.

We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.

I like PBS. I love Big Bird ... But I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it.

I'm not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to Russia, or Mr. Putin.

I have never once regretted missing a business opportunity so that I could be with my children and grandchildren.

My wife drives a couple of Cadillacs.

I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners.

I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning.

Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what.

I'm not familiar precisely with what I said, but I'll stand by what I said, whatever it was.

Melt all the tanks in the world and make them rubbish bins. They will be much more useful for the humanity!

...best intentions notwithstanding, no one can control how the media communicates a story and what the public eventually understands.

There are personal reasons, psychological reasons, but there could also be political reasons for becoming a terrorist.

... my mother and father ... raised nine of us and taught each to do our best ... We tried.

Never forget a customer. Never let a customer forget you

That the good that we do might live on after us, while the evil lies interred with their bones.

You need to pray. Donald Trump is who he is - and that's one thing that politicians are not. It's all "game playing."

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

A person could see a lot without ever leaving his own living room. Especially if he had the right tools.

Our test is infallible. Whatever view of reality deepens our sense of the tremendous issues of life in the world wherein we move, is for us nearer the truth than any view which diminishes that sense.