I am very proud to be called a pig. It stands for pride, integrity and guts.

The District of Columbia is one gigantic ear.

There is purpose and worth to each and every life.

Isn't it interesting that all of those people who support the choice of abortion have already been born?

An actor knows two important things -- to be honest in what he is doing and to be in touch with the audience. That's not bad advice for a politician either.

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. ... The Goliath of totalitarianism will be brought down by the David of the microchip.

I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it.

The challenge of statesmanship is to have the vision to dream of a better, safer world and the courage, persistence, and patience to turn that dream into reality.

I'm a sucker for hero worship.

Dreams became issues of East versus West. Hopes became political rhetoric. Progress became a search for power and domination. Somewhere the truth was lost that people don't make war, governments do.

Today it is difficult to find leaders who are independent of the forces that have brought us our problems: The Congress, the bureaucracy, the lobbyists, big business, and big labor.

Everywhere we go, Nancy makes the world a little better.

I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience.

This is a matter of vital importance to the public safety ... While we recognize that assault-weapon legislation will not stop all assault-weapon crime, statistics prove that we can dry up the supply of these guns, making them less accessible to criminals.

I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life.

A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours.

Don't give up on your ideals. Don't compromise. Don't turn to expediency. And for heaven's sake ... don't get cynical.

The United States trades more with the province of Ontario alone than with Japan.