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No politician was more maligned than Ronald Reagan.
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"ACCESSIBILITY FOR ALL" - In the words of Ronald Reagan, "Tear down this wall".
ROBERT M. HENSEL
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Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding.
RALPH NADER
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Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.
DAVID R. GERGEN
I'm getting a little tired of everybody quoting Ronald Reagan.
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Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.
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Ronald Reagan felt very great regret about the deficits to which he contributed on his watch.
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If the government paid you to fail, would you change your business strategy? Of course not.
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The Boys of Pointe du Hoc: Ronald Reagan , D-Day, and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion.
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
George W. Bush always wanted to be like Ronald Reagan , rather than like his father.
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If the government would like to hire my services to maximize value for their stake, they should appr...
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If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.
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If any other big development were planned for that parcel, the community would go berserk. And if I ...
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We felt the media would be one of the best things we could do to put it in the forefront of people's...
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In those days industry would hire any chemist that could breathe.
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I wanted to be a senator from Illinois. I was obsessed with politics. My dad was friends with a lot ...
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[During the Gulf War, in early 1991, the news coverage was so laudatory that a former media strategi...
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I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness...
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BEN SHAPIRO
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Mrs. Reagan has not endorsed any candidate in the campaign. Neither she nor President Reagan ever en...
JOANNE DRAKE
So I would say Reagan was the best, and certainly Clinton the worst.
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CRAIG HOLMAN
You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reag...
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Davey fascinated Ronald and Nancy Reagan with his relationship with Hughes. Some of the things Hughe...
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I think he is one of the two greatest presidents of the 20th century, along with Franklin Delano Roo...
NEWT GINGRICH
He just
brought the party together. All I had to do as party chairman was say,
'Remember wha...
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Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.
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I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.
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Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, bu...
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Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have...
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Well, I would - if they realized that we - again if - if we led them back to that stalemate only bec...
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There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know...
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A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah.
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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
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Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very...
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People don't start wars, governments do.
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No arsenal ... is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.
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If you're afraid of the future, then get out of the way, stand aside. The people of this country are...
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I know in my heart that man is good.
That what is right will always eventually triumph.
And...
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I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabine...
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I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves.
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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 ant...
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Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.
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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in...
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Facts are stupid things.
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Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the ...
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Don't be afraid to see what you see.
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Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
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Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formida...
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My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever...
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History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
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You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope...
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To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the cro...
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Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And e...
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