“Facts are stupid things.”

“If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.”

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

“A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions tell me that's true, but the facts and evidence tell me it is not.”

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”

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

“It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.”