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Political Quotes by Ronald Reagan

39 Political quotes by Ronald Reagan

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The tax code feels like a daily mugging, and the speaker jokes that politics only teaches you how to be political. He also says America is still humanity’s best hope despite hatred and crisis. He urges a new beginning, asking people to set aside frustration and not let age become a campaign weapon.

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I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales.

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

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As government expands, liberty contracts.

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

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

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

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The current tax code is a daily mugging.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

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

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

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

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I don't want to do a TV series. It's no fun working from dawn to sunset every day. An occasional movie would…

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

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

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

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Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl…

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

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

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I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw…

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

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For decades, we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children's future for the temporary convenience of the present.…

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

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

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

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

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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.…

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

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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…

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

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

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I'm convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: A better life for themselves and their children;…

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

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We're approaching the end of a bloody century plagued by a terrible political invention, totalitarianism. Optimism comes less easily today, not because…

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

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Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines.

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…

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…

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

Simple fairness dictates that government must not raise taxes on families struggling to pay their bills.

The time has come to turn to God and reassert our trust in Him for the healing of America - our country is in…

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

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Where there's liberty, art succeeds.

Since I came to the White House, I got two hearing aids, a colon operation, skin cancer, a prostate operation, and I was shot.…

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…

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…

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of what they know isn't so

Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism.