We don’t want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.
Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.
I have a form of Parkinson’s disease, which I don’t like. My legs don’t move when my brain tells them to. It’s very frustrating.
Please don’t ask me to do that which I’ve just said I’m not going to do, because you’re burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.
Every loss of life is terrible.
We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.
I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn’t happen 20 years ago.
Our God is a forgiving God.
I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.
We are not the sum of our possessions.
Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.
For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.
I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.
I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.
I don’t write letters anymore.
I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.
Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.
It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.
A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man’s heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.
Old guys can still do fun things.
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