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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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No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
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Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community? Realize that the doctor's fight against socialized medicine is your fight. We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients. Recognize that government invasion of public power is eventually an assault upon your own business.
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The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose.
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It would seem that not only is religion lacking in the schools - so is common sense. I wonder what a teacher is supposed to say if a kid asks about those four words on a dime - 'In God We Trust.' Or maybe that's why they aren't being taught how to read these days.
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There are simple answers to the nation's problems, but not easy ones.
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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.
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What's happening in Cuba is not a failure of the Cuban people. It's a failure of Fidel Castro and the Communists.
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We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.
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Yes, deficits are a problem. I've been saying so for more than a quarter of a century now. But the problem is not the size of the deficit, it's the size of government's claim on our economy.
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We have every right to dream heroic dreams.
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Together, we'll build a far better future for America -- a future of growth, opportunity, and security, anchored by the values of a people who are confident, compassionate, and whose heart is good.
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The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
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The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it.
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Trains are not any more energy efficient than the average automobile, with both getting about 48 passenger miles to the gallon.
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Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.
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Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer.
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Greatest gift is human life and that we have a duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
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