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Action(s)
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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last -- but eat you he will.
-Ronald Reagan
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Actors, Acting
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Someplace along the line the audience discovered you. In my case it was playing the Gipper.
-Ronald Reagan
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America
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It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.
-Ronald Reagan
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Double, no triple, our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth. It is time that we recognized that ours was, in truth, a noble cause.
-Ronald Reagan
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Assassination
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Honey, I forgot to duck.
-Ronald Reagan
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Bureaucracy
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No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
-Ronald Reagan
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Change
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Status quo, you know, that is Latin for the mess we're in.
-Ronald Reagan
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Character
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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.
-Ronald Reagan
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Conservation
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If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.
-Ronald Reagan
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Differences
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More than 20 years ago, President Kennedy defined an approach that is as valid today as when he announced it. So let us not be blind to our differences,'' he said, but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.''Well, those differences are differences in governmental structure and philosophy. The common interests have to do with the things of everyday life for people everywhere. Just suppose with me for a moment that an Ivan and an Anya could find themselves, oh, say, in a waiting room, or sharing a shelter from the rain or a storm with a Jim and Sally, and there was no language barrier to keep them from getting acquainted. Would they then debate the differences between their respective governments? Or would they find themselves comparing notes about their children and what each other did for a living?Before they parted company, they would probably have touched on ambitions and hobbies and what they wanted for their children and problems of making ends meet. And as they went their separate ways, maybe Anya would be saying to Ivan, Wasn't she nice? She also teaches music.'' Or Jim would be telling Sally what Ivan did or didn't like about his boss. They might even have decided they were all going to get together for dinner some evening soon. Above all, they would have proven that people don't make wars.People want to raise their children in a world without fear and without war. They want to have some of the good things over and above bare subsistence that make life worth living. They want to work at some craft, trade, or profession that gives them satisfaction and a sense of worth. Their common interests cross all borders.
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1984/11684a.htm
-Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation and Other Countries on United States-Soviet Relations, January 16, 1984
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Drugs
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Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.
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Economics
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We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.
-Ronald Reagan
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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.
-Ronald Reagan
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Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.
-Ronald Reagan
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Experience
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If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.
-Ronald Reagan
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Freedom
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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
-Ronald Reagan
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We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by the direction of the people. And this is the simple magic which makes a commonplace routine a near miracle to many of the world
-Ronald Reagan, Gubernatorial Inaugural Address, January 5, 1967
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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
-Ronald Reagan
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Gambling (Gaming)
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I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and brain coordination in playing these games. The air force believes these kids will be our outstanding pilots should they fly our jets.
-Ronald Reagan
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Goals
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My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out
-Ronald Reagan
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Government
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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
-Ronald Reagan
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Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
-Ronald Reagan
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The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
-Ronald Reagan
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Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
-Ronald Reagan
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Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
-Ronald Reagan
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Books by and about Ronald Reagan