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" How can a president not be an actor? "

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" One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it. "

" 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. "

" Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. "

" We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added. "

" Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man. "

" Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. "

" Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States. "

" Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing. "

" There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder. "

" I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself. "

" Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. "

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" There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect. "

" Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. "

" Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is. "

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" Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence. "

" People do not make wars; governments do. "

" The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts. "

" Man is not free unless government is limited. "