Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
When people tell me that I became President on January 20th, 1981, I feel I have to correct them. You don't become… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved in order to stand… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We are a nation that has a government-not the other way around. And that makes us special among the nations of the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
No longer must government be allowed to ride roughshod, absorbing the people's wealth, usurping their rights, and crushing their spirit. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
When the Commander-in-Chief of a nation finds it necessary to order employees of the government or agencies of the government to do… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is 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
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
It is the tendency of Government to grow, for practices and programs to become the nearest thing to eternal life we'll see… — 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
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
If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Fellow Americans, our duty is before us tonight. Let us go forward, determined to serve selflessly a vision of man with God,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We must remove government's smothering hand from where it does harm; we must seek to revitalize the proper functions of government. We… — 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
[A woman waiting for him in the Kremlin asked Gobachev] "Was communism invented by a politician or a scientist?" [He replied] "Well,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The years ahead will be great ones for our country, for the cause of freedom and the spread of civilization. The West… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Either you will control your government, or government will control you. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
An actor knows two important things - to be honest in what he is doing and to be in touch with the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Families cannot prosper and keep America strong if government becomes a Goliath that preys upon their wealth, usurps their rights, and crushes… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Our economic assistance must be carefully targeted, and must make maximum use of the energy and efforts of the private sector... Economic… — 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