There is no prospect that the United States will say to Israel, 'You do such and such and we'll not support you in your security.'

He who walks in the middle of the roads gets hit from both sides.

Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there’s a good reason for it. They work better.

Before you get mugged by reality, take out an insurance policy. It’s the Reagan way.

Between 1980 and 1990, the number of countries that were classified as ‘free’ or ‘mostly free’ increased by about 50%.

My experience is that if the military didn’t want to use force and was confronted with a president that did, the military would come back with what I would call the ‘bomb Moscow’ scenario. They would say it had to be done with conditions that were so extreme, you obviously wouldn’t do it.

You don’t get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion.

It was an attempt to stick the Congress’s finger in King Hussein’s eye.

I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that’s working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he’d do it. In government, you don’t have to worry about that.

I don’t know how you define ‘neoconservatism,’ but I think it’s associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.