"You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by the way he eats jelly beans."
"Americans have been taught to know when opportunity knocks, but the Democrats seem determined to knock opportunity."
"California produces 40% of America's fresh fruits, vegetables and nuts -- the kind you eat. We have had a bumper crop of the other variety, too."
"Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
"Whatever else history may say about me when I'm gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears: to your confidence rather than your doubts. My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way."
"You all knew that some things are worth dying for. One's country is worth dying for, and democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. All of you loved liberty. All of you were willing to fight tyranny, and you knew the people of your countries were behind you." -- Speech at Normandy
"My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."--During a microphone check in 1984, unaware that he was being broadcast.
"General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"--Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate West Berlin, Germany June 12, 1987
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