I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it.

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.

We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.

We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them.

It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it.

I think I'd be a better president because I was in combat.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

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.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

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.

I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.

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.

I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

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.

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.

Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

Debates, I hate.

For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

I can't ever remember sitting around and saying, 'gosh let's hurry up and get these debates going, that'll win it for me.' Nope.

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.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

I have survivor's curiosity, I guess.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

I like a colorful sock. I'm a sock man.

I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it's hard.

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.

I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you - you - you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality.

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

I'm a conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.

I'm not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it's a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don't believe that's the way one oughta campaign, I've never done that.

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.

Many schools include a service project as part of their curriculum, and many corporations have in-house projects for their employees or give them time off to do volunteer work.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.

Old guys can still do fun things.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

Poland should be strong and prosperous and independent and play its proper role as a great nation in the heart of Europe.

The day will come - and it is not far off - when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, when a black man or woman will sit in the Oval Office. When that day comes, the most remarkable thing about it will be how naturally it occurs.

The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off.

We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.