Quotes about Ronald Reagan

The first rule of a bureaucracy is to protect the bureaucracy. If the people running the welfare program had let their clientele find other ways of making a living, that would have reduced their importance and their budget.

AT THE END OF WORLD WAR II, I was a New Dealer to the core. I thought government could solve all our postwar problems just as it had ended the Depression and won the war. I didn't trust big business. I thought government, not private companies, should own our big public utilities; if there wasn't enough housing to shelter the American people, I thought government should build it; if we needed better medical care, the answer was socialized medicine.

Families stand at the center of our society. And every family has a personal stake in promoting excellence in education.

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

This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place.

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.

We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place.

I know that some believe that voluntary prayer in schools should be restricted to a moment of silence. We already have the right to remain silent - we can take our Fifth Amendment.