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For One, We Very Much Need In Any Immigration Bill - We Need Protection For People Who Are In This Country And Who Have Not Become Citizens, For Example, That They Are Protected And Legitimized And Given Permanent Residency Here. And We Want To See Some Things Of That Kind Added To The Immigration Bill.

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Ronald Reagan

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For One, We Very Much Need In Any Immigration Bill - We Need Protection For People Who Are In This Country And Who Have Not Become Citizens, For Example, That They Are Protected And Legitimized And Given Permanent Residency Here. And We Want To See Some Things Of That Kind Added To The Immigration Bill.

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Status Quo, You Know, Is Latin For 'the Mess We're In'.

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There Is No Greater Happiness For A Man Than Approaching A Door At The End Of A Day Knowing Someone On The Other Side Of That Door Is Waiting For The Sound Of His Footsteps.

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Are You Willing To Spend Time Studying The Issues, Making Yourself Aware, And Then Conveying That Information To Family And Friends? Will You Resist The Temptation To Get A Government Handout For Your Community?

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'.

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Government Must Not Supersede The Will Of The People Or The Responsibilities Of The People. The Function Of Government Is Not To Confer Happiness, But To Give Men The Opportunity To Work Out Happiness For Themselves.

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How Could An Actor Become President?

We Can't Help Everyone, But Everyone Can Help Someone.

If You Put It On The Table As A Bargaining Chip, It Becomes A Bargaining Chip

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America Has Always Been Greatest When We Dared To Be Great. We Can Reach For Greatness Again. We Can Follow Our Dreams To Distant Stars, Living And Working In Space For Peaceful, Economic, And Scientific Gain. Tonight, I Am Directing Nasa To Develop A Permanently Manned Space Station, And To Do It Within A Decade.

Government Is Not A Solution To Our Problem Government Is The Problem.

I Doubt Evolution Is Real.

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Self-defense Is Not Only Our Right; It Is Our Duty.

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!

Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!

I Will Stand On, And Continue To Use, The Figures I Have Used, Because I Believe They Are Correct. Now, I'm Not Going To Deny That You Don't Now And Then Slip Up On Something; No One Bats A Thousand.

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There's No Question I Am An Idealist, Which Is Another Way Of Saying 'i Am An American.'

I Believe That The Most Essential Element Of Our Defense Of Freedom Is Our Insistence On Speaking Out For The Cause Of Religious Liberty.

People Who Think A Tax Boost Will Cure Inflation Are The Same Ones Who Believe Another Drink Will Cure A Hangover.

Government Is Not A Solution To Our Problem, Government Is The Problem. ... Government Does Not Solve Problems; It Subsidizes Them. 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. If It Stops Moving, Subsidize It. ... The Problem Is Not That People Are Taxed Too Little, The Problem Is That Government Spends Too Much.

A Broader Reading Of History Shows That Appeasement, No Matter How It Is Labeled, Never Fulfills The Hopes Of The Appeasers.

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.

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I Believe That George Washington Knew The City Of Man Cannot Survive Without The City Of God; That The Visible City Will Perish Without The Invisible City.

If No One Among Us Is Capable Of Governing Himself, Then Who Among Us Has The Capcity To Govern Someone Else.

This Country Was Founded And Built By People With Great Dreams And The Courage To Take Great Risks.

We Owe This Freedom Of Choice And Action To Those Men And Women In Uniform Who Have Served This Nation And Its Interests In Time Of Need. In Particular, We Are Forever Indebted To Those Who Have Given Their Lives That We Might Be Free.

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These Gentlemen Are The Moral Equivalents Of America's Founding Fathers.

We've Gone Astray From First Principles. We've Lost Sight Of The Rule That Individual Freedom And Ingenuity Are At The Very Core Of Everything That We've Accomplished. Government's First Duty Is To Protect The People, Not Run Their Lives.

You Know, If Nancy Davis Hadn't Come Along When She Did, I Would Have Lost My Soul.

Environmental Extremists ... Wouldn't Let You Build A House Unless It Looked Like A Bird's Nest.

Do What's Right And You'll Please Some Of The People And Astound The Rest.

I Oppose Registration For The Draft... Because I Believe The Security Of Freedom Can Best Be Achieved By Security Through Freedom.

You Can Never Underestimate The Ability Of The Democrats To Wet Their Finger And Hold It In The Wind.

The Thought Of Being President Frightens Me And I Do Not Think I Want The Job.

America's Economic Strength Depends On Industry's Ability To Improve Productivity And Quality And To Remain On The Cutting Edge Of Technology, And That's Why The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Is So Important.

I Notice That All Of The People Who Support Abortion Are Already Born.

Freedom Is Indivisible - There Is No "s" On The End Of It. You Can Erode Freedom, Diminish It, But You Cannot Divide It And Choose To Keep "some Freedoms" While Giving Up Others.

Well, It [evolution] Is A Theory, It Is A Scientific Theory Only, And It Has In Recent Years Been Challenged In The World Of Science And Is Not Yet Believed In The Scientific Community To Be As Infallible As It Once Was Believed. But If It Was Going To Be Taught In The Schools, Then I Think That Also The Biblical Theory Of Creation, Which Is Not A Theory But The Biblical Story Of Creation, Should Also Be Taught.

I'm Not Smart Enough To Lie

Many A Man Has Failed Because He Had His Wishbone Where His Backbone Should Have Been.

We Can Look Forward To The Day When The Free Flow Of Trade, From The Southern Reaches Of Tierra Del Fuego To The Northern Outposts Of The Arctic Circle, Unites The People Of The Western Hemisphere In A Bond Of Mutually Beneficial Exchange, When All Borders Become What The U.s.-canadian Border So Long Has Been: A Meeting Place, Rather Than A Dividing Line.

The White House Is The Leakiest Place I've Ever Been In. (on Special Measures To Ensure Secrecy Of Plans To Bomb Libya)

The Challenge Of Statesmanship Is To Have The Vision To Dream Of A Better, Safer World And The Courage, Persistence, And Patience To Turn That Dream Into Reality.

We Were Poor When I Was Young But The Difference Was That The Government Didn't Come Around Telling You You Were Poor.

The Great Dynamic Success Of Capitalism Had Given Us A Powerful Weapon In Our Battle Against Communism-money.

The Federal Government Did Not Create The States; The States Created The Federal Government.

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The Best Social Reform Program In The World Is A Job.

If We Get The Federal Government Out Of The Classroom, Maybe We'll Get God Back In.

We Are For Aiding Our Allies By Sharing Of Our Material Blessings With Those Nations Which Share In Our Fundamental Beliefs, But We're Against Doling Out Money Government To Government, Creating Bureaucracy, If Not Socialism, All Over The World. We Set Out To Help 19 Countries. We're Helping 107. We've Spent 146 Billion Dollars. With That Money, We Bought A 2 Million Dollar Yacht For Haile Selassie. We Bought Dress Suits For Greek Undertakers, Extra Wives For Kenya[n] Government Officials. We Bought A Thousand Tv Sets For A Place Where They Have No Electricity.

It Is The Soviet Union That Runs Against The Tide Of History . . . . [it Is] The March Of Freedom And Democracy Which Will Leave Marxism-leninism On The Ash Heap Of History, As It Has Left Other Tyrannies Which Stifle The Freedom And Muzzle The Self-expression Of The People.

Life Is One Grand, Sweet Song, So Start The Music.

There Is No Limit To The Amount Of Good You Can Do If You Don't Care Who Gets The Credit.

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There Are No Limits To Growth And Human Progress When Men And Women Are Free To Follow Their Dreams.

Government Is Never More Dangerous Than When Our Desire To Have It Help Us Blinds Us To Its Great Power To Harm Us.

Mankind's Journey Into Space, Like Every Great Voyage Of Discovery, Will Become Part Of Our Unending Journey Of Liberation. In The Limitless Reaches Of Space, We Will Find Liberation From Tyranny, From Scarcity, From Ignorance And From War. We Will Find The Means To Protect This Earth And To Nurture Every Human Life, And To Explore The Universe. . . .this Is Our Mission, This Is Our Destiny.

There Is A Mandate To Impose A Voluntary Return To Traditional Values.

A Leader, Once Convinced That A Particular Course Of Action Is The Right One, Must....be Undaunted When The Going Gets Tough.

But The Simple Truth Is That We've Lost Control Of Our Own Borders, And No Nation Can Do That And Survive.

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.

My Basic Rule Is That I Want People Who Don't Want A Job In Government.

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.

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.

Freedom Is The Recognition That No Single Person, No Single Authority Or Government Has A Monopoly On The Truth, But That Every Individual Life Is Infinitely Precious, That Every One Of Us Put In This World Has Been Put There For A Reason And Has Something To Offer.

Education Is Like A Diamond With Many Facets: It Includes The Basic Mastery Of Numbers And Letters That Give Us Access To The Treasury Of Human Knowledge, Accumulated And Refined Through The Ages; It Includes Technical And Vocational Training As Well As Instruction In Science, Higher Mathematics, And Humane Letters.

Elena, My Four Year Old, Says To Me In All Seriousness; "mommy, You Need To Buy Another Baby".

We Can't Build A Safer World With Honorable Intentions And Good Will Alone. Achieving The Fundamental Goals Our Nation Seeks In World Affairs - Peace, Human Rights, Economics Progress National Independence And International Stability - Means Supporting Our Friends And Defending Our Interests.

Going Around This Country, I Have Found A Great Hunger In America For Spiritual Revival; For A Belief That Law Must Be Based On A Higher Law; For A Return To Traditions And Values That We Once Had. Our Government, In Its Most Sacred Documents - The Constitution And The Declaration Of Independence And All - Speak Of Man Being Created, Of A Creator; That We're A Nation Under God.

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.

America Has Not Been A Story Or A Byword. That Small Community Of Pilgrims Prospered And, Driven By The Dreams And, Yes, By The Ideas Of The Founding Fathers, Went On To Become A Beacon To All The Oppressed And Poor Of The World.

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.

I Believe Moses Was 80 When God First Commissioned Him For Public Service.

The Same Technology Transforming Our Lives Can Solve The Greatest Problem Of The 20th Century. A Security Shield Can One Day Render Nuclear Weapons Obsolete And Free Mankind From The Prison Of Nuclear Terror. America Met One Historic Challenge And Went To The Moon. Now America Must Meet Another: To Make Our Strategic Defense Real For All The Citizens Of Planet Earth.

Well, My Head's Full Of Questions My Temp'rature's Risin' Fast Well, I'm Lookin' For Some Answers But I Don't Know Who To Ask

The More The Plans Fail, The More The Planners Plan.

Good Citizenship And Defending Democracy Means Living Up To The Ideals And Values That Make This Country Great.

When A Business Or An Individual Spends More Than It Makes, It Goes Bankrupt. When Government Does It, It Sends You The Bill. And When Government Does It For 40 Years, The Bill Comes In Two Ways: Higher Taxes And Inflation. Make No Mistake About It, Inflation Is A Tax And Not By Accident.

Our Status As A Free Society And World Power Is Not Based On Brute Strength. When We've Taken Up Arms, It Has Been For The Defense Of Freedom For Ourselves And For Other Peaceful Nations Who Needed Our Help. But Now, Faced With The Development Of Weapons With Immense Destructive Power, We've No Choice But To Maintain Ready Defense Forces That Are Second To None. Yes, The Cost Is High, But The Price Of Neglect Would Be Infinitely Higher.

The State Of California Has No Business Subsidizing Intellectual Curiosity.

We Should Measure Welfare's Success By How Many People Leave Welfare, Not By How Many Are Added.

Government Welfare

They Don't Subscribe To Our Sense Of Morality; They Don't Believe In An Afterlife; They Don't Believe In A God Or Religion. And The Only Morality They Recognize, Therefore, Is What Will Advance The Cause Or Socialism.

If You Serve A Child A Rotten Hamburger In America, Federal, State, And Local Agencies Will Investigate You, Summon You, Close You Down, Whatever. But If You Provide A Child With A Rotten Education, Nothing Happens, Except That You're Liable To Be Given More Money To Do It With. Well, We've Discovered That Money Alone Isn't The Answer.

There Are Simple Answers To The Nation's Problems, But Not Easy Ones.

There Was A Time When "sound As A Dollar" Was A Description, Not A Joke.

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.

I Have Decided That Whatever Time I May Have Left Is Left For Him.

Money Can't Buy Happiness, But It Will Certainly Get You A Better Class Of Memories.

General Secretary Gorbachev, If You Seek Peace, If You Seek Prosperity For The Soviet Union And Eastern Europe, If You Seek Liberalization: Come Here To This Gate! Mr. Gorbachev, Open This Gate! Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!

Diplomacy, Of Course, Is A Subtle And Nuanced Craft, So Much So That It's Said That When The Most Wily Diplomat Of The Nineteenth-century Passed Away, Other Diplomats Asked, On Reports Of His Death, "what Do You Suppose The Old Fox Meant By That?

The Founding Fathers Believed That Faith In God Was The Key To Our Being A Good People And America's Becoming A Great Nation.

Someone Must Stand Up To Those Who Say, "here's The Key, There's The Treasury, Just Take As Many Of Those Hard-earned Tax Dollars As You Want."

A Troubled And Afflicted Mankind Looks To Us, Pleading For Us To Keep Our Rendezvous With Destiny; That We Will Uphold The Principles Of Self-reliance, Self-discipline, Morality, And - Above All - Responsible Liberty For Every Individual That We Will Become That Shining City On A Hill.

Those Concerns Of A National Character-such As Air And Water Pollution That Do Not Respect State Boundaries, Or The National Transportation System, Or Efforts To Safeguard Your Civil Liberties-must, Of Course, Be Handled On The National Level.

I Feel That The Whole Western World Will Benefit By The Resurrection Of The Neutron Bomb Project.

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