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How can a president not be an actor?

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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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There you go again. When I opposed Medicare, there was another piece of legislation meeting the same problem before the Congress. I happened to favor the other piece of legislation and thought that it would be better for the senior citizens to provide better care than the one that was finally passed.
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If we get the federal government out of the classroom, maybe we'll get God back in.
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Hope remains the highest reality, the age-old power.
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One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism has been by way of medicine....If you don't do this, one of these days you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was like in American when men were free.
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Form and Substance are opposite ends of the same coin.
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Well I've said it before and I'll say it again — America's best days are yet to come. Our proudest moments are yet to be. Our most glorious achievements are just ahead.
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There are simple answers to the nation's problems, but not easy ones.
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Too often character assassination has replaced debate in principle here in Washington. Destroy someone's reputation, and you don't have to talk about what he stands for.
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Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
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How could an actor become president?
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I don't have too much time for fiction.
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I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.
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Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
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God, the source of our knowledge, has been expelled from the classroom. He gives us His greatest blessing, life, and yet many would condone the taking of innocent life. We expect Him to protect us in a crisis, but turn away from Him too often in our day-to-day living. I wonder if He isn't waiting for us to wake up.
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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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If some among you fear taking a stand because you are afraid of reprisals from customers, clients, or even government, recognize that you are just feeding the crocodile hoping he'll eat you last.
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I knew Thomas Jefferson. He was a friend of mine. And believe me, you are no Thomas Jefferson. (at 1992 Republican party convention, referring to Bill Clinton)
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One hundred nations in the UN have not agreed with us on just about everything that's come before them, where we're involved, and it didn't upset my breakfast at all.
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Jesse Helms wants me to move to the right, Lowell Weiker wants me to move to the left, and Teddy Kennedy wants me to move back to California.
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A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist.
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