Economy Quotes by Ronald Reagan

A strong American economy is essential to the well-being and security of our friends and allies.

— Ronald Reagan

A drastic reduction in the deficit...will take place in the fiscal year '82.

— Ronald Reagan

We now know that inflation results from all that deficit spending.

— Ronald Reagan

Governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people.

— Ronald Reagan

Revenues should be increased not by increasing the tax rates on the individual but by building a bigger economy for everybody.

— Ronald Reagan

You cant tax business. Business doesnt pay taxes. It collects taxes.

— Ronald Reagan

In this new world economy, national boundaries are increasingly becoming obsolete.

— Ronald Reagan

Could there be anything resembling a free enterprise economy, if wealth and property were concentrated in the hands of a few, while…

— Ronald Reagan

We don't need more politicians insisting we have deficits because you're not taxed enough. Those deficits ballooned from an economy that didn't…

— Ronald Reagan

Could there be a better answer to the stupidity of Karl Marx than millions of workers individually sharing in the ownership of…

— Ronald Reagan

Today it is difficult to find leaders who are independent of the forces that have brought us our problems: The Congress, the…

— Ronald Reagan

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

Yes, deficits are a problem. I've been saying so for more than a quarter of a century now. But the problem is…

— Ronald Reagan

Over hundred years ago Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act. There was wide distribution of land and they didn't confiscate anyone's privately…

— Ronald Reagan

I can't help but believe that in the future we will see in the United States and throughout the Western world an…

— Ronald Reagan

Meanwhile, what about the workers in those state monopolies that are being put up for sale? I am reminded of a technique…

— Ronald Reagan

This is not to say that the government should confiscate from the "haves" and bestow upon the "have-nots", beyond the requirements of…

— Ronald Reagan

Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem. ... Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. Government's…

— Ronald Reagan

In 1992, the federal Government actually issued more work authorizations to immigrants and temporary foreign workers than the net number of new…

— Ronald Reagan

Some years ago a top Ford official was showing the late Walter Reuther through the very automates plant in Cleveland, Ohio and…

— Ronald Reagan

Our Founding Fathers well understood that concentrated power is the enemy of liberty and the rights of man. They knew that the…

— Ronald Reagan

Our economic assistance must be carefully targeted, and must make maximum use of the energy and efforts of the private sector... Economic…

— Ronald Reagan

The people of Central America - and, in a broader sense, the entire developing world - need to know first-hand that freedom…

— Ronald Reagan

Every dollar the Federal Government does not take from us, every decision it does not make for us will make our economy…

— Ronald Reagan

Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal. It was Mussolini's success in Italy, with his government-directed economy, that led the…

— Ronald Reagan

The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to…

— Ronald Reagan

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution…

— Ronald Reagan

It should be clear to everyone that the nation's steadfast policy should afford every American of working age a realistic opportunity to…

— Ronald Reagan

Could there be anything but widespread misery, where a privileged few controlled a nation's wealth, while millions labored for a pittance, and…

— Ronald Reagan