I Had A Lot Of Experience With

To Me, The Presidency And The Vice-presidency Were Not Prizes To Be Won, But A Duty To Be Done.

I Had A Life-long Ambition To Be A Professional Baseball Player, But Nobody Would Sign Me.

The Tough Decisions That A President Has To Make In The Oval Office Are In No Way Related To The Capability Of A Person To Do Well On Television. On The Other Hand, The Capability Of A Person To Project Favorably On Television Enhances That Person's Odds Of Being Elected So He Can Serve In The Oval Office. So You Can't Ignore The Talents, One, To Be Very Effective On Television, And On The Other Hand, To Be Very Effective As An Operating President.

In A Political Sense, There Is One Problem That Currently Underlies All Of The Others. That Problem Is Making Government Sufficiently Responsive To The People. If We Don't Make Government Responsive To The People, We Don't Make It Believable. And We Must Make Government Believable If We Are To Have A Functioning Democracy.

Can A Free People Restrain Crime Without Sacrificing Fundamental Liberties And A Heritage Of Compassion?... Let Us Show That We Can Temper Together Those Opposite Elements Of Liberty And Restraint Into One Consistent Whole. Let Us Set An Example For The World Of A Law-abiding America Glorying In Its Freedom As Well As Its Respect For Law.