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I have learned that one of the most important rules in politics is poise - which means looking like an owl after you have behaved like a jackass.

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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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Could there be anything resembling a free enterprise economy, if wealth and property were concentrated in the hands of a few, while the great majority owned little more than the shirts on their backs?
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Don't be afraid to see what you see.
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There's no question I am an idealist, which is another way of saying 'I am an American.'
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Well, I would - if they realized that we - again if - if we led them back to that stalemate only because our retaliatory power, our seconds, or strike at them after our first strike, would be so destructive they they couldn't afford it, that would hold them off.
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Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.
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I, in my own mind, have always thought of America as a place in the divine scheme of things that was set aside as a promised land...Any person with the courage, with the desire to tear up their roots, to strive for freedom, to attempt and dare to live in a strange and foreign place, to travel halfway across the world was welcome here.
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... a faceless mass, waiting for handouts.
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I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
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Our policy is simple: We are not going to betray our friends, reward the enemies of freedom, or permit fear and retreat to become American policies — especially in this hemisphere. None of the four wars in my lifetime came about because we were too strong.
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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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Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look.
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By 1980, we knew it was time to renew our faith, to strive with all our strength toward the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with an orderly society. We believed then and now there are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow their dreams.
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Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.
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No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
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