Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reaganwas an American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Prior to his presidency, he was the 33rd Governor of California from 1967 to 1975, following a career as a Hollywood actor and union leader...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth6 February 1911
CountryUnited States of America
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Well, let me tell you something; I knew Thomas Jefferson. He was a friend of mine and Governor. . . . You're no Thomas Jefferson!
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Today we have done what we had to do. If necessary, we shall do it again.
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To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership - not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere.
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We must not look to government to solve our problems. Government is the problem.
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We're vulnerable on that one, ... They've done quite a job on me as 'favoring the rich' in our tax policies.
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We've done our part. And as I walk off into the city streets, a final word to the men and women of the Reagan revolution, the men and women across America who for 8 years did the work that brought America back. My friends: We did it. We weren't just marking time. We made a difference. We made the city stronger, we made the city freer, and we left her in good hands. All in all, not bad, not bad at all. (Farewell Address to the Nation, January 20th, 1989)
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My belief has always been . . . that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation of the federal government -- at point of bayonet if necessary -- to restore that individual's constitutional rights.
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Most of my dreams came true. (told to biographer Lou Cannon in 1991)
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Who says, Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want
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We need you, we need your youth, your strength, and your idealism, to help us make right what is wrong.
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Our friends in the other party will never forgive us for our success, and are doing everything in their power to rewrite history. Listening to the liberals, you'd think that the 1980s were the worst period since the Great Depression, filled with suffering and despair. I don't know about you, but I'm getting awfully tired of the whining voices from the White House these days. They're claiming there was a decade of greed and neglect, but you and I know better than that. We were there.
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We don't have an option of living with inflation and its attendant tragedy. We have an alternative, and that is the program for economic recovery. True, it'll take time for the favorable effects of our program to be felt. So, we must begin now. The people are watching and waiting. They don't demand miracles. They do expect us to act. Let us act together.
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We relax at the ranch, which if not heaven itself, probably has the same zip code.
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There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder