Ronald Reagan Politics Quotations

When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

How can a president not be an actor?

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

Don't be afraid to see what you see.

I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.

Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.

You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard.

There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.

I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service.

I don't have too much time for fiction.

This administration is totally colorblind.

Could there be anything but widespread misery, where a privileged few controlled a nation's wealth, while millions labored for a pittance, and millions more were desperate for want of employment?

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?

Meanwhile, what about the workers in those state monopolies that are being put up for sale? I am reminded of a technique for employee ownership that has worked well for many U.S. companies. It goes by various names, but the best known is "Employee Stock Ownership Program," or ESOP.

Could there be a better answer to the stupidity of Karl Marx than millions of workers individually sharing in the ownership of the means of production.

If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.

... a faceless mass, waiting for handouts.

Today a newcomer to the state is automatically eligible for our many aid programs the moment he crosses the border.

... the moral equal of our Founding Fathers.

We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients.

Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act.

Even now I wonder what I might have accomplished if I'd studied harder

I oppose registration for the draft... because I believe the security of freedom can best be achieved by security through freedom.

Facts are stubborn things.

I'll be like Scarlett O'Hara-I'll think about it tomorrow.

The torch of liberty is hot; warms those who hold it high; burns those who try to extinguish it.

Republicans believe the best way to assure prosperity is to generate more jobs. The Democrats believe in more welfare.

An informed patriotism is what we want.

With freedom comes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual.

Are you better off now than you were four years ago?