You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion.

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

You've got to dream a little bit if you're going to get somewhere.

I like the life of ideas and applying ideas to action.

If they are too big to fail, make them smaller.

Terrorism is not a matter that can be left to law enforcement, with its deliberative process, built-in delays, and safeguards that may let the prisoner go free on procedural grounds.

Obama seems to want to do something to damage rich people.

Before you get mugged by reality, take out an insurance policy. It's the Reagan way.

If somebody had made that [deal] to me when I was a businessman, I would have said he proposed to give me the sleeves from his vest.

We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

I never regret anything.

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

Even in the most bold and daring acts, courage is a matter of the heart.

What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual.

We teach that a person must practice only one cultivation way. No matter how you practice cultivation, you should not mess up your cultivation by adding other things.

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

I am not a politician and I have no intention of being one.

I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five.