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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 it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Ronald Reagan
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Ronald Reagan
Age: 93 †
Born: 1911
Born: February 6
Died: 2004
Died: June 5
40Th U.S. President
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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.
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An actor knows two important things - to be honest in what he is doing and to be in touch with the audience. That's not bad advice for a politician either.
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The future belongs to the free.
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Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.
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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.
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Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
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We could say the government spend like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors, because the sailors are spending their own money.
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I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show.
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Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.
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I don't know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it. It reminded me a lot of my job as governor.
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The United Sates has much to offer the third world war.
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Detente - isn't that what a farmer has with his turkey - until Thanksgiving?
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History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
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Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.
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We're more than friends and neighbors and allies we are kin, who together have built the most productive relationship between any two countries in the world today.
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I don't have too much time for fiction.
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We meant to change a nation, and instead, we changed a world.
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The District of Columbia is one gigantic ear.
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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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