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„Не сомневайтесь. Операция «Буря в Пустыне» была победой добра над злом, свободы над тиранией, мира над войной.“

„Настало время человечеству войти в солнечную систему.“

„Я приветствую Президента Буша, миссис Буш, и моих коллег астронавтов.“

„Будущее будет лучше завтра.“

„Холокост был непристойным периодом в истории нашей страны. Я имею в виду, в этом столетии в истории. Но мы все жили в этом столетии. Я не жил в этом веке.“

„[Победа США в войне в Персидском заливе была] вдохновляющей победой для сил агрессии.“

„Честно говоря, учителя — единственная профессия, которая учит наших детей.“

„Мы твёрдо привержены к НАТО. Мы являемся частью НАТО. Мы твёрдо привержены к Европе. Мы являемся частью Европы.“

„Мы не хотим вернуться к завтрашнему дню. Мы хотим идти вперед.“

„У нас будут самые образованные американцы в мире.“

„Я принимал хорошие решения в прошлом. Я принимал хорошие решения в будущем.“

“It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.”

“I had a good political career, and I have a good business career. I didn't get the brass ring, but I did very well.”

“I also try to discipline myself when I get into a situation … and I'm trying to think of an answer, instead of being verbose, which is a tendency that I have, to be concise. Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.”

“It is not just age; it's accomplishments, it's experience. I have far more experience than many others that sought the office of vice president of this country. I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency. I will be prepared to deal with the people in the Bush administration, if that unfortunate event would ever occur.”

“Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back! … That's a Hoosierism. You've got to get used to that!”

“You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.”

“We're going to have the best educated American people in the world.”

“Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.”

“Our policies must be premised on, and must reinforce, values such as family, hard work, integrity and personal responsibility.”

“This is where the Continental Congress met over two hundred years ago during the American Revolution. So, Lancaster was actually the capital of our nation for one day in 1977.”

“People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.”

“For NASA, space is still a high priority.”

“What we have here is clear-cut evidence that illegitimacy—something I've always said we should talk about in terms of not having it—leads to drug abuse.”

“My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will never surrender to what is right.”

“It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.”

“Mars is essentially in the same orbit. … Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.”

“Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.”

“I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.”

“We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.”

“You’re close, but you left a little something off. The 'e' on the end.”

“Bearing babies irresponsibly is simply wrong. We must be unequivocal about this. It doesn't help matters when primetime TV has Murphy Brown — a character who supposedly epitomizes today's intelligent, highly paid, professional woman — mocking the importance of fathers, by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another "lifestyle choice."”

“I believe that I've made good judgments in the past, and I think I've made good judgments in the future.”

“If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.”

“The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. [on followup] No, not our nation's, but in World War II. I mean, we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century, but in this century's history.”

“The future will be better tomorrow.”

“He went to the finest of private schools, and I am a public school graduate. Given the poor state of public schools it is obvious why everybody makes all those jokes about me.”

“I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix.”

“The other day [the President] said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. Would you like a puppy?”

“When you take the UNCF model that, what a waste it is to lose one's mind, or not to have a mind is being very wasteful, how true that is.”