Famous Quotes

Quotes by Ronald Reagan

• No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
• One picture is worth 1,000 denials.
• One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.
• Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
• Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
• Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
• Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
• Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
• Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.
• Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.
• The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
• The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
• The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
• The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
• There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
• There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
• Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
• Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
• Trust, but verify.
• We are never defeated unless we give up on God.
• We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
• We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
• We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
• We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.
• We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
• What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.
• While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
• Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
• Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.
• You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
• You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.