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I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved in order to stand up for my own values and beliefs. My candidacy is based on my record, and for that matter, my entire life.

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Ronald Reagan
Age: 93 †
Born: 1911
Born: February 6
Died: 2004
Died: June 5
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There is no love like a mother’s - she who carries the child that God knits in the womb, she who nourishes and guides, she who teaches and inspires, she who gives of her heart and soul and self for the good and the happiness of her children and her family.
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Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.
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Form and Substance are opposite ends of the same coin.
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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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Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.
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Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.
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We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.
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We establish no religion in this country. We command no worship. We mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are and must remain separate.
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I usually never walk by a microphone.
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We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the earth. Our government has no power except that granted to it by the people It is time to check and reverse the growth of government which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed.
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Most of my dreams came true.
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You get a little stir crazy during the week.
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America stands unique in the world: the only country not founded on race but on a way, an ideal. Not in spite of but because of our polyglot background, we have had all the strength in the world. That is the American way.
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I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.
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I just don't think it's good for us to be run out of town. (Refusing to cancel Secretary of State visit to Moscow)
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Governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people.
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The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
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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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We have to realize that this country in its private sector has been fighting the most successful war on poverty the world has seen for the last 200 years.
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If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.
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