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.

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.

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?

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.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

Be who you are and say what you feel, but if you can't handle, then you sure as hell don't deserve, darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.

The more you move, the stronger you'll grow.

A powerful performance will transform everyone in the room.

From joy I came, for joy I live, in sacred joy I melt.

I don't know about making a passionate love story, even if it's appealing for an audience to see a husband and wife make love on the screen.

People don't want to be millionaires - they want to experience what they believe only millions can buy.