WednesdayAug 26, 2026
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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 meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. [We'd] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.
Trust, but verify.
Communists, preach the supremacy of the state and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on Earth, they are the focus of evil in the modern world...
Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuous revolution of the marketplace. It is the understanding that allows to recognize shortcomings and seek solutions.
Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so lets not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.
How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
Where others fear trade and economic growth, we see opportunities for creating new wealth and undreamed-of opportunities for millions in our own land and beyond. Where others seek to throw up barriers, we seek to bring them down; where others take counsel of their fears, we follow our hopes.
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
... Government should do only those things the people cannot do for themselves.
The best view of government is in the rearview mirror as you're driving away from it.
The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Let us ask ourselves; 'What kind of people do we think we are?'
Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits on the human capacity for intelligence, imagination and wonder.
I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years. Ronald Reagan during the opening ceremonies for the library that will house his white house papers.
Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere.
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
That's the nice thing about this job. You get to quote yourself shamelessly. If you don't, Larry Speakes will.
It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if Im in a cabinet meeting.
If you've seen one Redwood tree, you've seen them all.
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
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