Quote

Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.

Ronald Reagan

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ronald Reagan
Age: 93 †
Born: 1911
Born: February 6
Died: 2004
Died: June 5
40Th U.S. President
Actor
Autobiographer
Character Actor
Diarist
Film Actor
Military Officer
Politician
Radio Personality
Screenwriter
Tampico
Illinois
Ronald Wilson Reagan
Ronald W. Reagan
Ronald W Reagan
President Reagan
President Ronald Reagan
R. W. Reagan
Government
Years
Declared
Federal
Poverty
War

More quotes by Ronald Reagan

Image
The most fundamental paradox is that if we're never to use force, we must be prepared to use it and to use it successfully. We Americans don't want war and we don't start fights. We don't maintain a strong military force to conquer or coerce others. The purpose of our military is simple and straightforward: we want to prevent war.
Ronald Reagan
Image
Don't let the doom criers and the cynics persuade you that the best is past.
Ronald Reagan
Image
Bureaucracy is adept at protecting its nest.
Ronald Reagan
Image
People who think a tax boost will cure inflation are the same ones who believe another drink will cure a hangover.
Ronald Reagan
Image
The economic welfare of all our people must ultimately stem not from government programs, but from the wealth created by a vigorous private sector.
Ronald Reagan
Image
Good citizenship and defending democracy means living up to the ideals and values that make this country great.
Ronald Reagan
Image
It should be the right of the individual to decide whether he wants to belong to a union.
Ronald Reagan
Image
There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
Ronald Reagan
Image
Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock.
Ronald Reagan
Image
To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors.
Ronald Reagan
Image
The most confident person in any transaction ALWAYS introduces themselves first.
Ronald Reagan
Image
There's no question I am an idealist, which is another way of saying 'I am an American.'
Ronald Reagan
Image
I am an environmentalist. ... I am for clean air.
Ronald Reagan
Image
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
Ronald Reagan
Image
The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution.
Ronald Reagan
Image
The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant it's just that they know so much that isn't so.
Ronald Reagan
Image
In a world wracked by hatred, economic crisis, and political tension, America remains mankind's best hope.
Ronald Reagan
Image
T]he state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.
Ronald Reagan
Image
I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Ronald Reagan
Image
I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.
Ronald Reagan