Government quotes by Ronald Reagan

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"This administration is totally colorblind."
"The Soviet Union would remain a one-party nation even if an opposition party were permitted-because everyone would join that party."
"Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating."
"The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated."
"[We seek] a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place."
"I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete."
"Tonight we are launching an effort which holds the promise of changing the course of human history."
"Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never gets done as soon as you wish it would."
"The war in Vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to some extent. It's been said that these memorials reflect a hunger for healing."
"Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking [and] now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage."
"Some say it will bring war to the heavens, but its purpose is to deter war, in the heavens and on earth."
"Someone must stand up to those who say, "Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want."
"I will veto again and again until spending is brought under control."
"People don't start wars, governments do."
"I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers. Go ahead-make my day."
"Most [tax revisions] didn't improve the system, they made it more like Washington itself: complicated, unfair, cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to hire high-priced legal and tax advisers."
"Even Albert Einstein reportedly needed help on his 1040 form."
"The distance between the present system and our proposal is like comparing the distance between a Model T and the space shuttle. And I should know; I've seen both."
"The current tax code is a daily mugging."
"America's view of apartheid is simple and straightforward: We believe it is wrong. We condemn it. And we are united in hoping for the day when apartheid will be no more."
"If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now."
"As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it. The only person who's going to be penalized and have difficulty is the law-abiding citizen, who then cannot have [it] if he wants protection-the protection of a weapon in his home, for home protection."
"I have come to the conclusion that the 22nd Amendment [limiting the presidency to two terms] was a mistake. Shouldn't the people have the right to vote for someone as many times as they want to vote for him?"
"I think the presidency is an institution over which you have temporary custody."
"Today we have done what we had to do. If necessary, we shall do it again."
"[Qaddafi] counted on America to be passive. He counted wrong."
"I don't have too much time for fiction."
"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, "I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
"There is bitter bile in my throat."
"I've never seen the sharks circling like they now are with blood in the water."
"My only criticism is that I wasn't told everything."
"The thought of being president frightens me. I do not think I want the job."
"To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last-but eat you he will."
"I was alarmed at my doctor's report: He said I was sound as a dollar."
"I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service."
"There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around."
"Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but Democrats believe every day is April 15."
"If I had as much make-up on as he did, I'd have looked younger, too."
"Shouldn't someone tag Mr Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx-first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother."
"I'll be like Scarlett O'Hara-I'll think about it tomorrow."
"You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard."
"Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his."