“Government is not a solution to our problem government is the problem.”

The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.

We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things.

Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

I didn’t leave the Democratic party, the Democratic Party left me.

We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

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

Excellence does not begin in Washington.

If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.

Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don’t have that problem.

There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.

Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.

A good speech should be like a woman’s skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.

It’s funny when you coming in first but you hope that you’re last, you just hope that it last.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there’s a gas bill tied to it.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.