Ronald Reagan Quotes And Sayings

My Fellow Americans, I Am Pleased To Tell You I Just Signed Legislation Which Outlaws Russia Forever. The Bombing Begins In Five Minutes.

Status Quo, You Know, Is Latin For 'The Mess We're In'.

We Are Never Defeated Unless We Give Up On God.

Thomas Jefferson Once Said, 'We Should Never Judge A President By His Age, Only By His Works.' And Ever Since He Told Me That, I Stopped Worrying.

Peace Is Not Absence Of Conflict, It Is The Ability To Handle Conflict By Peaceful Means.

Without God, Democracy Will Not And Cannot Long Endure.

We Have The Duty To Protect The Life Of An Unborn Child.

One Way To Make Sure Crime Doesn't Pay Would Be To Let The Government Run It.

Heroes May Not Be Braver Than Anyone Else. They're Just Braver Five Minutes Longer.

Government Exists To Protect Us From Each Other. Where Government Has Gone Beyond Its Limits Is In Deciding To Protect Us From Ourselves.

Let Us Be Sure That Those Who Come After Will Say Of Us In Our Time, That In Our Time We Did Everything That Could Be Done. We Finished The Race; We Kept Them Free; We Kept The Faith.

The Greatest Security For Israel Is To Create New Egypts.

The Best Minds Are Not In Government. If Any Were, Business Would Steal Them Away.

I Am Not Worried About The Deficit. It Is Big Enough To Take Care Of Itself.

Politics I Supposed To Be The Second-oldest Profession. I Have Come To Realize That It Bears A Very Close Resemblance To The First.

The Most Terrifying Words In The English Language Are: I'm From The Government And I'm Here To Help.

To Paraphrase Winston Churchill, I Did Not Take The Oath I Have Just Taken With The Intention Of Presiding Over The Dissolution Of The World's Strongest Economy.

It's Silly Talking About How Many Years We Will Have To Spend In The Jungles Of Vietnam When We Could Pave The Whole Country And Put Parking Stripes On It And Still Be Home By Christmas.

Information Is The Oxygen Of The Modern Age. It Seeps Through The Walls Topped By Barbed Wire, It Wafts Across The Electrified Borders.

You Know, If I Listened To Michael Dukakis Long Enough, I Would Be Convinced We're In An Economic Downturn And People Are Homeless And Going Without Food And Medical Attention And That We've Got To Do Something About The Unemployed.

Approximately 80% Of Our Air Pollution Stems From Hydrocarbons Released By Vegetation, So Let's Not Go Overboard In Setting And Enforcing Tough Emission Standards From Man-made Sources.

We Might Come Closer To Balancing The Budget If All Of Us Lived Closer To The Commandments And The Golden Rule.

Politics Is Just Like Show Business. You Have A Hell Of An Opening, Coast For A While, And Then Have A Hell Of A Close.

No Matter What Time It Is, Wake Me, Even If It's In The Middle Of A Cabinet Meeting.

Of The Four Wars In My Lifetime, None Came About Because The U.s. Was Too Strong.

It's True Hard Work Never Killed Anybody, But I Figure, Why Take The Chance?

I've Often Said There's Nothing Better For The Inside Of A Man Than The Outside Of A Horse.

What We Have Found In This Country, And Maybe We're More Aware Of It Now, Is One Problem That We've Had, Even In The Best Of Times, And That Is The People Who Are Sleeping On The Grates, The Homeless, You Might Say, By Choice.

We Can Not Play Innocents Abroad In A World That Is Not Innocent.

A People Free To Choose Will Always Choose Peace.

Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!

The Thought Of Being President Frightens Me And I Do Not Think I Want The Job.

Protecting The Rights Of Even The Least Individual Among Us Is Basically The Only Excuse The Government Has For Even Existing.

Recession Is When A Neighbor Loses His Job. Depression Is When You Lose Yours.

There Are No Great Limits To Growth Because There Are No Limits Of Human Intelligence, Imagination, And Wonder.

Government's First Duty Is To Protect The People, Not Run Their Lives.

They Say The World Has Become Too Complex For Simple Answers. They Are Wrong.

Within The Covers Of The Bible Are The Answers For All The Problems Men Face.

How Do You Tell A Communist? Well, It's Someone Who Reads Marx And Lenin. And How Do You Tell An Anti-communist? It's Someone Who Understands Marx And Lenin.

Some People Wonder All Their Lives If They've Made A Difference. The Marines Don't Have That Problem.

Latinos Are Republican. They Just Don't Know It Yet.

We Should Declare War On North Vietnam. We Could Pave The Whole Country And Put Parking Strips On It, And Still Be Home By Christmas.

Government Does Not Solve Problems; It Subsidizes Them.

We're In Greater Danger Today Than We Were The Day After Pearl Harbor. Our Military Is Absolutely Incapable Of Defending This Country.

Today, If You Invent A Better Mousetrap, The Government Comes Along With A Better Mouse.

It Doesn't Do Good To Open Doors For Someone Who Doesn't Have The Price To Get In. If He Has The Price, He May Not Need The Laws. There Is No Law Saying The Negro Has To Live In Harlem Or Watts.

All The Waste In A Year From A Nuclear Power Plant Can Be Stored Under A Desk.

The Problem Is Not That People Are Taxed Too Little, The Problem Is That Government Spends Too Much.

I Favor The Civil Rights Act Of 1964 And It Must Be Enforced At Gunpoint If Necessary.

But There Are Advantages To Being Elected President. The Day After I Was Elected, I Had My High School Grades Classified Top Secret.