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?

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.

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.

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.

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

Be willing to give, but only when you aren't expecting anything in return.

I do not see any numbers or anything

Look in your disappointments for the resolve to transform your experiences into solutions.

Everyone has his or her own means of defining value.

He held his seat a friend to human race.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

The shadows: some hide, others reveal.

Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.

I don't mind aging. I mean, my whole thing is, it's just a privilege to age.

From 1980 to 1990, I shot more films than any other actor in the Screen Actors Guild, apart from Gene Hackman.