Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.

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

It’s scary when it’s real. When it’s not just thinking about a person, but, like, having a real live person in front of you, with, like, expectations. And wants.

Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

I've seen how the left has used it to accuse opponents of their version of reform of being bigots and racists.

Michael Jackson has some contact with his mother. I know she is involved with the children

If stealing a few saltshakers was wrong I didn't want to be right.

Of course, there isn't really a black population in Idaho or Utah.

Character acting is a much braver pursuit than a guy who runs around and intermittently clenches his jaw muscles.

The power of making war often prevents it.

In the film, I'm not very mobile, like in the space suit.