I think words were Reagan's greatest weapon - and more powerful than the Strategic Defense Initiative, which did not come to fruition in his lifetime.

Presidents make history but are also a product of it. And there are two kinds: transforming and transactional. Reagan was a transforming president. He made history.

I see in [George H. W.] Bush a striving to be Reagan-like in the sense of having a big vision, and eschewing small details.

Today, we've got what seems to me to be binary-choice politics: black and white, ones and zeros, either you are with me or against me. How did we get here?

I think his [Reagan's] policy toward the Soviet Union was more risky than most people realize, and it was risky because of the paranoia and fear among the isolated old guard in Moscow.

He [Reagan] was who he was, and it was not complicated. You didn't get a different person in an interview.

And I said, 'Do I have leprosy?' And they said, 'You are a dangerous element.

Most business meetings involve one party elaborately suppressing a wish to shout at the other: 'just give us the money'.

Life isn't about plans it's about results.

The man that shows off, to that one who wants to convince of his value is to himself.

Each morning I face her window and pray that our love can be, cause that brownstone house where my baby lives is Mecca.

The art of a magician is not found in the simple deception, but in what surrounds it, the construction of a reality which supports the illusion.

Big shows are more like events and small shows are more like traditional gigs.

Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy? Forgive yourself and stop punishing yourself.

I don't expect my flight to produce a generation of astronauts and cosmonauts back home, but I hope it will encourage people to pursue their dreams.

I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.

I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.