Ronald Reagan
I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it.Collection: Government
Conservatives were brought up to hate deficits and justifiably so. We've long thought there are two things in Washington that are unbalanced - the budget and the liberals.Collection: Hate
If you can't summarize an issue on one page, you don't understand the issue well enough.Collection: Issues
If we listen to our hearts, believe in ourselves, and pull together, nothing can stand in our way.Collection: Believe
Self-defense is not only our right; it is our duty.Collection: Self
Our liberty springs from and depends upon an abiding faith in God.Collection: Spring
There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.Collection: Safety
A small nation, faced with the denial of its sovereignty — indeed, of its very existence — reminded us that the price of freedom is high but never so costly as the loss of freedom.Collection: Loss
I didn't leave the Democratic party; the Democratic party left me.Collection: War
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so.Collection: Government
Americans are hungering to feel proud and patriotic again.Collection: War
We in government should learn to look at our country with the eyes of the entrepreneur, seeing possibilities where others see only problemsCollection: Country
A nation's greatness is measured not just by its gross national product or military power, but by the strength of its devotion to the principles and values that bind its people and define their character.Collection: Military
Generations hence, parents will take their children to these woods to show them how the land must have looked to the first Pilgrims and pioneers. And as Americans wander through these forests, climb these mountains, they will sense the love and majesty of the Creator of all of that.Collection: Children
In Hollywood, as I've often said, if you don't sing or dance, you end up as an after-dinner speaker.Collection: Hollywood
No longer must government be allowed to ride roughshod, absorbing the people's wealth, usurping their rights, and crushing their spirit.Collection: Crush
We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down.Collection: Believe
Freedom prospers only where the blessings of God are avidly sought, and humbly accepted.Collection: Blessing
The [Carter] administration doesn't know the difference between a diplomat and a doormat.Collection: Differences
To do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom.Collection: Needs
Honey, I forgot to duckCollection: Ducks
The bill's a textbook example of special interest pork barrel politics at work, and I have no choice but to veto it.Collection: Choices
When cruelty is inflicted on innocent people, it discredits whatever cause.Collection: People
There was a time when "sound as a dollar" was a description, not a joke.Collection: Sound
We're entering our third century now, but it's wrong to judge our nation by its years. The calendar can't measure America because we were meant to be an endless experiment in freedom, with no limits to our reaches, no boundaries to what we can do, no end point to our hopes.Collection: Years
With all this talk about the supposed strain in relations [with the Soviet Union], there is an inference that somehow it is our fault. But we didn't kill Russian civilians by shooting down a civilian airplane. We didn't attempt to conquer an adjacent country to ours. We didn't walk out on negotiations and refuse to give a date for when we would resume.Collection: Country
Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions.Collection: Noble
It's time that we recognized that ours was in truth a noble cause.Collection: War
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep the peace, we and our allies must be strong enough to convince any potential aggressor that war could bring no benefit, only disaster.Collection: Strong
[Andrew Jackson] was actually 70 years old when he left the White HouseCollection: Humor
The purpose of America is to unleash the full talent and genius of every individual.Collection: America
What is important is that one strives to achieve a goal.Collection: Goal
We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place.Collection: Prayer
If you think you can - you can!Collection: Failure
Since when do we in America believe that our society is made up of two diametrically opposed classes - one rich, one poor - both in a permanent state of conflict and neither able to get ahead except at the expense of the other? Since when do we in America accept this alien and discredited theory of social and class warfare? Since when do we in America endorse the politics of envy and division?Collection: Believe
If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.Collection: Teach
The fourth landing of the Columbia is the historical equivalent of the driving of the golden spike which completed the first transcontinental railroad. It marks our entrance into a new era.Collection: Moon
While other [military] alliances have been formed to win wars, our fundamental purpose is to prevent war while preserving and extending the frontiers of freedom.Collection: Military
We have seen numerous instances in which American businesses have brought in foreign skilled workers after having laid off skilled American workers, simply because they can get the foreign workers more cheaply. It has become a major means of circumventing the costs of paying skilled American workers or the costs of training them.Collection: Mean
In Israel, free men and women are every day demonstrating the power of courage and faith. Back in 1948 when Isreal was founded, pundits claimed the new country could never survive. Today, no one questions that. Israel is a land of stability and democracy in a region of tyranny and unrest.Collection: Country
Trees cause pollution.Collection: Tree
We were poor when I was young but the difference was that the government didn't come around telling you you were poor.Collection: Government
If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me up?Collection: Shots
I heard one presidential candidate say that what this country needed was a president for the nineties. I was set to run again. I thought he said a president IN his nineties.Collection: Running
We have not inherited an easy world. If developments like the Industrial revolution, which began in England, and the gifts of science and technology have made life much easier for us, they have also made it more dangerous. There are threats now to our freedom, indeed to our very existence, that other generations could never even have imagined. There is first the threat of global war. No president, no Congress, no prime minister, no parliament can spend a day entirely free of this threat. If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.Collection: War
The despicable North Korean attack in Rangoon deprived us of trusted advisers and friends. So many of those who died had won admirers in America as they studied with us or guided us with their counsel. I personally recall the wisdom and composure of Foreign Minister Lee, with whom I met in Washington just a few short months ago. To the families and countrymen of all those who were lost, America expresses its deep sorrow.Collection: Korea
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.Collection: Motivational
I, for one, resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me, the free men and women of this country, as 'the masses.'Collection: Country