The best minds in government? If any were, business would hire them away. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The state of California has no business subsidizing intellectual curiosity. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
When youre up to your armpits in alligators, its hard to remember to drain the swamp. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
You cant tax business. Business doesnt pay taxes. It collects taxes. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If adults want to take such chances (with marijuana) that is their business — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Today it is difficult to find leaders who are independent of the forces that have brought us our problems: The Congress, the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We in government should learn to look at our country with the eyes of the entrepreneur, seeing possibilities where others see only… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Free enterprise is a rough and competitive game. It is a hell of a lot better than a government monopoly. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community? Realize that the doctor's fight against socialized medicine is… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Our spirit is back, but we haven't reinstitutionalized it. We've got to do a better job of getting across that America is… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Could there be anything resembling a free enterprise economy, if wealth and property were concentrated in the hands of a few, while… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It doesn't require expropriation or confiscation of private property or business to impose socialism on a people. What does it mean whether… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We have seen numerous instances in which American businesses have brought in foreign skilled workers after having laid off skilled American workers,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
When a business or an individual spends more than it makes, it goes bankrupt. When government does it, it sends you the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
ALEC has forged a unique partnership between state legislators and leaders from the corporate and business community. This partnership offers businessmen the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“The most dangerous myth is the demagoguery that business can be made to pay a larger share, thus relieving the individual. Politicians… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Government has laid its hand on health, housing, farming, industry, commerce, education, and to an ever-increasing degree interferes with the people's right… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Small business is the gateway to opportunity for those who want a piece of the American dream. [...] Well, wouldn't it be… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
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… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Simple fairness dictates that government must not raise taxes on families struggling to pay their bills. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The time has come to turn to God and reassert our trust in Him for the healing of America - our country is in… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The WPA was one of the most productive elements of FDR's alphabet soup of agencies because it put people to work building roads, bridges,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Since I came to the White House, I got two hearing aids, a colon operation, skin cancer, a prostate operation, and I was shot.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
A moment I've been dreading. George brought his ne're-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
On Father's Day, we pay tribute to all in our society who have taken on the responsibilitie s and joys of fatherhood. Whether our… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image