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

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.

Tomorrow, I'm going to a soup kitchen in Mobile. I think that will symbolize the insensitivity of this administration to human needs.

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

They'll never know we were here.

When we do evil We and our victims Are equally bewildered.

Perceptions change with time and you can't rush it, in my judgment.

You nourish your soul by fulfilling your destiny.

I worked very hard, but I think it's unfair to make it all sound like it's all David's fault.

I don't like working - I just like having done the end product. The process, I like to make it quick and painful.

The revolutionists did not succeed in establishing human freedom; they poured the new wine of belief in equal rights for all men into the old bottle of privilege for some; and it soured.

You must not pursue a success, but fly from it.

I try to preface everything with "this isn't new." Because most social movements have happened before and I get that. Nothing I'm doing is new.