Political Quotes by Ronald Reagan

The current tax code is a daily mugging.

— Ronald Reagan

We need more Democrats in the Senate -Like Custer needed more arrows.

— Ronald Reagan

There are simple answers to the nation's problems, but not easy ones.

— Ronald Reagan

The United Sates has much to offer the third world war.

— Ronald Reagan

I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day.

— Ronald Reagan

I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales.

— Ronald Reagan

As government expands, liberty contracts.

— Ronald Reagan

A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and…

— Ronald Reagan

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

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

We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.

— Ronald Reagan

To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors.

— Ronald Reagan

Baseball is our national pastime, that is if you discount political campaigning.

— Ronald Reagan

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

I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

— Ronald Reagan

For too long, too many people dependent on Social Security have been cruelly frightened by individuals seeking political gain through demagoguery and…

— Ronald Reagan

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

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

Dreams became issues of East versus West. Hopes became political rhetoric. Progress became a search for power and domination. Somewhere the truth…

— Ronald Reagan

This is not the time for political fun and games. This is the time for a new beginning. I ask you now…

— Ronald Reagan

I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to…

— Ronald Reagan

A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to…

— Ronald Reagan

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

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

— Ronald Reagan

The one thing our Founding Fathers could not foresee - they were farmers, professional men, businessmen giving of their time and effort…

— Ronald Reagan

In an ironic sense, Karl Marx was right. We are witnessing today a great revolutionary crisis, a crisis where the demands of…

— Ronald Reagan

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.…

— Ronald Reagan

I believe this nation hungers for a spiritual revival; hungers to once again see honor placed above political expediency; to see government…

— Ronald Reagan

We hear much of special interest groups. Well, our concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long…

— Ronald Reagan

The founders of the United Nations sought to replace a world at war with a world of civilized order. They hoped that…

— Ronald Reagan

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

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

Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how…

— Ronald Reagan

In a world wracked by hatred, economic crisis, and political tension, America remains mankind's best hope.

— Ronald Reagan

The difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks.

— Ronald Reagan

The war in vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to…

— Ronald Reagan

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

I want you to know that this administration is motivated by a political philosophy that sees the greatness of America in you,…

— Ronald Reagan

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