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I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us.
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I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them.
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The movies were custard compared to politics.
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You just get up each day and put one foot in front of the other and go. You know, each day is differ...
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With Alzheimer's patients, you have to be very careful what you say when you're looking at t...
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I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.
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I'm very grateful that President Obama has lifted the restrictions on federal funding for embryo...
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It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.
NANCY REAGAN

There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elec...
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As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.
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My life really began when I married my husband.
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Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists...
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortio...
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I always liked red. It's a picker-upper.
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Just say no to drugs!
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You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all her...
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Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.
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A woman is like a teabag -- only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.
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I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my fri...
NANCY REAGAN

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.
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A woman is like a tea bag, you can not tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water
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Embryonic stem cell research has the potential to alleviate so much suffering. Surely, by working to...
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When people say, 'You have Alzheimer's,' you have no idea what Alzheimer's is. You k...
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There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimu...
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted t...
NANCY REAGAN

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
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To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your e...
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I have been criticized and ridiculed for turning to astrology, but after a while, I reached the poin...
NANCY REAGAN

I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
NANCY REAGAN

I said from the very beginning, I don't want a big house, I don't want big grounds, I don...
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Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's ...
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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The Sixties, of course, was the worst time in the world to try and bring up a child. They were expos...
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It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of...
NANCY REAGAN

I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.
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I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
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were very much alike.
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I believe that more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
NANCY REAGAN

A lot of what acting is paying attention.
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It was wonderful to see President and Mrs. Bush today. It gave me a chance to thank them again for t...
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the charm, the humor, the intelligence -- the wise man that he is.
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one of our finest ambassadors for America and for freedom.
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It is an honor and a pleasure for me to help welcome Spirit of Ronald Reagan to its new home at Marc...
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But I decided to clean out Ronnie's sock drawer instead.
NANCY REAGAN

I believe there would be people alive today if there were a death penalty.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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with great confidence that Justice Rehnquist would provide the leadership to guide the courts in the...
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I think people would be alive today if there were a death penalty
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My life began with Ronnie.
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Everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me. We completed each other.
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Don't say I was tough. I was strong. I had to be, because Ronnie liked everybody and sometimes d...
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You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.
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Man the ship and bring her alive.
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The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting ...
RONALD REAGAN

We don't hide our space program. We don't keep secrets and cover things up. We do it all up ...
RONALD REAGAN

Let us ask ourselves, 'What kind of people do we think we are?' And let us answer, 'Free...
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Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a ...
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The British people know that, given strong leadership, time, and a little bit of hope, the forces of...
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Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy'...
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Poland is not East or West. Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mig...
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You are Mrs. Reagan because Mr. Reagan loves you with all his heart.
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Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can't even imagine a wor...
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People do not make wars; governments do.
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It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't ...
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No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ...
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Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very ...
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The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.
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Latinos are Republican. They just don't know it yet.
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Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.
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To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of pre...
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If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, India...
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The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.
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We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it...
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One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.
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No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
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You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economi...
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Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
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Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.
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The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take ...
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A people free to choose will always choose peace.
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I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
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Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the governm...
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I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them thro...
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We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutel...
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We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
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A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
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My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then wo...
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I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: 'This wall wil...
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For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free t...
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Today on the NATO line, our military forces face east to prevent a possible invasion. On the other s...
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Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.
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It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has...
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If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party...
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Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
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They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.
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I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Dem...
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It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we ...
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How can a president not be an actor?
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Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
RONALD REAGAN

One picture is worth 1,000 denials.
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Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.
RONALD REAGAN

Don't be afraid to see what you see.
RONALD REAGAN

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never dis...
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The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
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Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works....
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Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everyth...
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The objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy - the sy...
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The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know ...
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I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.
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Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.
RONALD REAGAN

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
RONALD REAGAN

Facts are stubborn things.
RONALD REAGAN

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.
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I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there...
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Man is not free unless government is limited.
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Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever dev...
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Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.
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Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
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We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be f...
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All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the cr...
RONALD REAGAN

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.
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Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as ...
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How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an...
RONALD REAGAN

Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.
RONALD REAGAN

You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consi...
RON REAGAN

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
RONALD REAGAN

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn thei...
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Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that...
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There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know...
RONALD REAGAN Our very freedom is secure because we're a nation governed by laws, not by men. We cannot as citizen...
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Let us ask ourselves; What kind of people do we think we are?
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In my eighty years, I prefer to call that the forty-first anniversary of my thirty ninth birthday, I...
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So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride...
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History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep t...
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If I'd gotten the job I wanted at Montgomery Ward, I suppose I would never have left Illinois.I've o...
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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the cr...
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Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards. If you disgrace yourself, y...
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We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by the direction of the peo...
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It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't availabl...
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Double, no triple, our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth. It is t...
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Someday, the realm of liberty and justice will encompass the planet. Freedom is not just the birthri...
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Status quo, you know, that is Latin for the mess we're in.
RONALD REAGAN

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
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We're an ideal political family, as accessible as Disneyland.
MAUREEN REAGAN

Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must...
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Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
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What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've ...
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While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
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Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere.
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Someplace along the line the audience discovered you. In my case it was playing the Gipper.
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If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, India...
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We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the G...
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Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If ...
RONALD REAGAN

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.
RONALD REAGAN

If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.
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We are for aiding our allies by sharing some of our material blessings with those nations which shar...
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I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as unqualified as some of...
MAUREEN REAGAN

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
RONALD REAGAN

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
RONALD REAGAN

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
RONALD REAGAN

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then wo...
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I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed i...
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We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conc...
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I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. N...
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Approximately 80 % of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not...
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Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wa...
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More than 20 years ago, President Kennedy defined an approach that is as valid today as when he anno...
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No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never dis...
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Honey, I forgot to duck.
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You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the ...
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You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a...
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We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely in...
RONALD REAGAN

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker...
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No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
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I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these ...
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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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Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never never gets done as soon as you ...
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My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then wo...
RONALD REAGAN

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself ...
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Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a ve...
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No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage ...
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We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be...
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We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit ov...
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Limits exist only in the mind
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Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If ...
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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.
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The best minds in government? If any were, business would hire them away.
RONALD REAGAN

Some spend their entire lives wondering if they have made a difference in this world. The Marines do...
RONALD REAGAN

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a ver...
RONALD REAGAN

A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort and remembered with...
RONALD REAGAN

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of...
MAUREEN REAGAN

The taxpayer -- that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civ...
RONALD REAGAN

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver 5 minutes longer.
RONALD REAGAN

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them right away.
RONALD REAGAN

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
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We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
RONALD REAGAN

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
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We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbre...
RONALD REAGAN

I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.

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