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

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.

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

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

Isn't it true that a pleasant house makes winter more poetic, and doesn't winter add to the poetry of a house?

A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul a sick body is a prison.

It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.

Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's great.

A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

I do not own a single security anywhere that doesn't pay a dividend, and I formed a mutual-fund company with that very simple philosophy.

A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven.

Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.

You never quite know what the change is until, one day, you wake up and go, "Wow, I'm reacting to things differently and I feel differently."

The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.