If I'd gotten the job I wanted at Montgomery Ward, I suppose I would never have left Illinois.

T]he state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.

We must not be innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

The great dynamic success of capitalism had given us a powerful weapon in our battle against Communism-money.

Our whole system of government is based on "We the people," but if we the people don't pay attention to what's going on, we have no right to bellyache or squawk when things go wrong.

I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever unless you do something to starve it.

In Hollywood, as I've often said, if you don't sing or dance, you end up as an after-dinner speaker.

I don't know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it. It reminded me a lot of my job as governor.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

By the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.