I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
There are simple answers to the nation's problems, but not easy ones. — 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… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
In a world wracked by hatred, economic crisis, and political tension, America remains mankind's best hope. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Baseball is our national pastime, that is if you discount political campaigning. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I want you to know that this administration is motivated by a political philosophy that sees the greatness of America in you,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I don't want to do a TV series. It's no fun working from dawn to sunset every day. An occasional movie would… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The war in vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Dreams became issues of East versus West. Hopes became political rhetoric. Progress became a search for power and domination. Somewhere the truth… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: A better life for themselves and their children;… — 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
We hear much of special interest groups. Well, our concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I believe this nation hungers for a spiritual revival; hungers to once again see honor placed above political expediency; to see government once again the protector of our liberties, not the distributor of gifts and privilege. Government should uphold and not undermine those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded-religion, education and, above all,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share
For decades, we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children's future for the temporary convenience of the present.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The founders of the United Nations sought to replace a world at war with a world of civilized order. They hoped that… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Our Founding Fathers well understood that concentrated power is the enemy of liberty and the rights of man. They knew that the… — 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 political one who lives in Florida. The one who hangs around here all the time looking shiftless. This so-called kid is already almost 40 and has never had a real job. Maybe I'll call Kinsley over… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share
In an ironic sense, Karl Marx was right. We are witnessing today a great revolutionary crisis, a crisis where the demands of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Someone must stand up to those who say, "Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
This is not the time for political fun and games. This is the time for a new beginning. I ask you now… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We're approaching the end of a bloody century plagued by a terrible political invention, totalitarianism. Optimism comes less easily today, not because… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
For too long, too many people dependent on Social Security have been cruelly frightened by individuals seeking political gain through demagoguery and… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The one thing our Founding Fathers could not foresee - they were farmers, professional men, businessmen giving of their time and effort… — 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 put things in perspective. You pull your energies together. You change. You go forward. My fellow Americans, I have a great deal that I want to accomplish with you and for you over the next two… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share
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 political one who lives in Florida. The one who hangs around here all the time looking shiftless. This so-called kid is already almost 40 and has never had a real job. Maybe I'll call Kinsley over… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share
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 fathers are near at hand or a continent away, with their families or watching from the light of eternity, we take this day to remember them, to say our thanks for the years they have given… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share
