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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Ronald Reagan

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much. "

" Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders. "

" We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent. "

" No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth! "

" Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong. "

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

" Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy's enemies have refined their instruments of repression. "

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

" Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. "

" Facts are stubborn things. "

" Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. "

" A people free to choose will always choose peace. "

" The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. "

" Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. "

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

" Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15. "

" Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! "

Ronald Reagan

Gorbachev

Down

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

" Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem. "

" If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party. "

" It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first. "

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

" 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. "

" The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job. "

Ronald Reagan

Want

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" 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. "

" Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. "

" Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world. "