Ronald Reagan
Let me make our goal in this program very clear: jobs, jobs, jobs, and more jobs. Our policy has been and will continue to be: What is good for the American worker is good for America.Collection: Jobs
Young Americans must never again be sent to fight and die unless we are prepared to let them win.Collection: Fighting
One of the worst mistakes anybody can make is to bet against Americans.Collection: Mistake
Let us renew our faith that as free men and women we still have the power to better our lives.Collection: Men
For three decades, we have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.Collection: Government
We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace.Collection: Peace
Governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people.Collection: Government
America must remain freedom's staunchest friend, for freedom is our best ally and it is the world's only hope to conquer poverty and preserve peace.Collection: America
Together, we'll build a far better future for America -- a future of growth, opportunity, and security, anchored by the values of a people who are confident, compassionate, and whose heart is good.Collection: Heart
The White House is the leakiest place I've ever been in. (On special measures to ensure secrecy of plans to bomb Libya)Collection: White
America is still an eagle, and she's ready to soar again.Collection: Eagles
I'd like to harness their youthful energy with a strap.Collection: Energy
We can't have it both ways. We can't expect God to protect us in a crisis and just leave Him over there on the shelf in our day-to-day living. I wonder if sometimes He isn't waiting for us to wake up, He isn't maybe running out of patience.Collection: Running
Every honor is appropriate for the courageous Americans who made the supreme sacrifice for our Nation at Pearl Harbor and in the many battles that followed in World War II. Their sacrifice was for a cause, not for conquest; for a world that would be safe for future generations. Their devotion must never be forgotten.Collection: War
Our loyalty lies with little taxpayers, not big spenders. What our critics really believe is that those in Washington know better how to spend your money than you, the people, do. But we're not going to let them do it, period.Collection: Loyalty
In a world wracked by hatred, economic crisis, and political tension, America remains mankind's best hope.Collection: America
We cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide...t here is no cause more important for preserving that freedom than affirming the transcendent right to life of all human beings, the right without which no other rights have any meaning.Collection: Men
I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service.Collection: Believe
I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things.Collection: Great Things
The Montreal Protocol is a model of cooperation. It is a product of the recognition and international consensus that ozone depletion is a global problem, both in terms of its causes and its effects. The protocol is the result of an extraordinary process of scientific study, negotiations among representatives of the business and environmental communities, and international diplomacy. It is a monumental achievement.Collection: Ozone
The struggle now going on for the world will never be decided by bombs or rockets, by armies or military might. The real crisis we face today is a spiritual one; at root, it is a test of moral will and faith.Collection: Faith
The ongoing migration of persons to the United States in violation of our laws is a serious national problem detrimental to the interests of the United States.Collection: Law
Could there be anything but widespread misery, where a privileged few controlled a nation's wealth, while millions labored for a pittance, and millions more were desperate for want of employment?Collection: Wisdom
It doesn't do any good to hold the door open for someone if they don't have a way to walk through it. And if they do have a way to pass through it then you probably don't need to hold it open because they can open it for themselves.Collection: Doors
With regard to the freedom of the individual for choice with regard to abortion, there is one individual who is not being considered at all, and that is the one who is being aborted. And I have noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.Collection: Choices
In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to make both horrendous mistakes and glorious celebrations.Collection: Mistake
With the right to bear arms comes a great responsibility to use caution and common sense on handgun purchases.Collection: Responsibility
Some years ago a top Ford official was showing the late Walter Reuther through the very automates plant in Cleveland, Ohio and he said to him jokingly, "Walter, you'll have a hard time collecting union dues from these machines." and Walter said, "you are going to have more trouble trying to sell automobiles to them." Both of them let it stop there. There was a logical answer to that ... the owners of the machines could buy automobiles and if you increase the number of owners you increase the number of consumers.Collection: Wisdom
My basic rule is that I want people who don't want a job in government.Collection: Jobs
I deplore the tendency, in some institutions, to go directly toward training for a trade or profession or something and ignoring the liberal arts. It is the foundation of education.Collection: Art
I'm beginning to wonder if the symbol of the United States pretty soon isn't going to be an ambassador with a flag under his arm climbing into an escape helicopter.Collection: Peace
I have learned that one of the most important rules in politics is poise - which means looking like an owl after you have behaved like a jackass.Collection: Mean
The doctor begins to lose freedoms; it's like telling a lie, and one leads to another. First you decide that the doctor can have so many patients. They are equally divided among the various doctors by the government. But then the doctors aren't equally divided geographically, so a doctor decides he wants to practice in one town and the government has to say to him you can't live in that town, they already have enough doctors. You have to go someplace else. And from here it is only a short step to dictating where he will go.Collection: Lying
The other day, someone told me the difference between a democracy and a people's democracy. It's the same difference between a jacket and a straitjacket.Collection: War
I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.Collection: Funny
Our Founding Fathers well understood that concentrated power is the enemy of liberty and the rights of man. They knew that the American experiment in individual liberty, free enterprise and republican self-government could succeed only if power were widely distributed. And since in any society social and political power flow from economic power, they saw that wealth and property would have to be widely distributed among the people of the country. The truth of this insight is immediately apparent.Collection: Country
George Burns . . . the only man I know who does fool Mother Nature.Collection: Mother
I have flown twice over Mount St. Helens out on our West Coast. I'm not a scientist and I don't know the figures, but I have a suspicion that that one little mountain has probably released more sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere of the world than has been released in the last ten years of automobile driving or things of that kind that people are so concerned about.Collection: Funny
I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.Collection: Government
Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats.Collection: Government
For centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent outreach such as private charity, the establishment of schools and hospitals, and the abolition of slavery.Collection: Bible
The best way to get over a dog's death is to get another soon.Collection: Dog
Everywhere we go, Nancy makes the world a little better.Collection: Love
The family has always been the cornerstone of American society.Collection: American Society
Hope remains the highest reality, the age-old power.Collection: Reality
Our principles were revolutionary. We began as a small, weak republic. But we survived. Our example inspired others, imperfectly at times, but it inspired them nevertheless. This constitutional republic, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, prospered and grew strong. To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. That is our purpose in the world - nothing more and nothing less.Collection: Strong
I miss going to church, but I think the Lord understands.Collection: Thinking
I doubt evolution is real.Collection: Real
You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly. So you learn. You put things in perspective. You pull your energies together. You change. You go forward. My fellow Americans, I have a great deal that I want to accomplish with you and for you over the next two years. And, the Lord willing, that's exactly what I intend to do.Collection: Mistake