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The Montreal Protocol Is A Model Of Cooperation. It Is A Product Of The Recognition And International Consensus That Ozone Depletion Is A Global Problem, Both In Terms Of Its Causes And Its Effects. The Protocol Is The Result Of An Extraordinary Process Of Scientific Study, Negotiations Among Representatives Of The Business And Environmental Communities, And International Diplomacy. It Is A Monumental Achievement.

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Ronald Reagan

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The Montreal Protocol Is A Model Of Cooperation. It Is A Product Of The Recognition And International Consensus That Ozone Depletion Is A Global Problem, Both In Terms Of Its Causes And Its Effects. The Protocol Is The Result Of An Extraordinary Process Of Scientific Study, Negotiations Among Representatives Of The Business And Environmental Communities, And International Diplomacy. It Is A Monumental Achievement.

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Accepting A Government Grant With Its Accompanying Rules Is Like Marrying A Girl And Finding Out Her Entire Family Is Moving In With You Before The Honeymoon.

The Despicable North Korean Attack In Rangoon Deprived Us Of Trusted Advisers And Friends. So Many Of Those Who Died Had Won Admirers In America As They Studied With Us Or Guided Us With Their Counsel. I Personally Recall The Wisdom And Composure Of Foreign Minister Lee, With Whom I Met In Washington Just A Few Short Months Ago. To The Families And Countrymen Of All Those Who Were Lost, America Expresses Its Deep Sorrow.

Since When Do We In America Believe That Our Society Is Made Up Of Two Diametrically Opposed Classes - One Rich, One Poor - Both In A Permanent State Of Conflict And Neither Able To Get Ahead Except At The Expense Of The Other? Since When Do We In America Accept This Alien And Discredited Theory Of Social And Class Warfare? Since When Do We In America Endorse The Politics Of Envy And Division?

Well I've Said It Before And I'll Say It Again America's Best Days Are Yet To Come. Our Proudest Moments Are Yet To Be. Our Most Glorious Achievements Are Just Ahead.

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Because Vietnam Was Not A Declared War, The Veterans Are Not Even Eligible For The G. I. Bill Of Rights With Respect To Education Or Anything.

A Nation Without Borders Is No Nation At All.

You Hear A Lot Of Jokes Every Once In A While About 'silent Cal Coolidge.' The Joke Is On The People Who Make The Jokes. Look At His Record. He Cut The Taxes Four Times. We Had Probably The Greatest Growth And Prosperity That We've Ever Known. I Have Taken Heed Of That Because If He Did That By Doing Nothing, Maybe That's The Answer.

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.

You And I Know And Do Not Believe That Life Is So Dear And Peace So Sweet As To Be Purchased At The Price Of Chains And Slavery. If Nothing In Life Is Worth Dying For, When Did This Begin-just In The Face Of This Enemy? Or Should Moses Have Told The Children Of Israel To Live In Slavery Under The Pharaohs? Should Christ Have Refused The Cross? Should The Patriots At Concord Bridge Have Thrown Down Their Guns And Refused To Fire The Shot Heard 'round The World? The Martyrs Of History Were Not Fools, And Our Honored Dead Who Gave Their Lives To Stop The Advance Of The Nazis Didn't Die In Vain.

Without God, Democracy Will Not And Cannot Long Endure.

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On Father's Day, We Pay Tribute To All In Our Society Who Have Taken On The Responsibilities And Joys Of Fatherhood. Whether Our Fathers Are Near At Hand Or A Continent Away, With Their Families Or Watching From The Light Of Eternity, We Take This Day To Remember Them, To Say Our Thanks For The Years They Have Given Us, And To Ask That They Receive God's Blessings.

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I Like Photographers-you Don't Ask Questions.

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If You're Explaining, You're Losing.

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Her Many Achievements Will Be Appreciated More As Time Goes On.

Remember That Every Government Service, Every Offer Of Government - Financed Security, Is Paid For In The Loss Of Personal Freedom... In The Days To Come, Whenever A Voice Is Raised Telling You To Let The Government Do It, Analyze Very Carefully To See Whether The Suggested Service Is Worth The Personal Freedom Which You Must Forgo In Return For Such Service.

My Golf-loving Friend Bob Hope Asked Me What My Handicap Was, So I Told Him - The Congress.

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.

In 1992, The Federal Government Actually Issued More Work Authorizations To Immigrants And Temporary Foreign Workers Than The Net Number Of New Jobs Created By Our Economy. Something Is Fundamentally Wrong When We Have Millions Of American Citizens And Legal Residents Begging For Jobs, And Yet We Are Admitting Thousands And Thousands Of Immigrants A Year With Virtually No Consideration To Our Employment Needs Or Their Employment Skills.

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.

Freedom Is The Right To Question And Change The Established Way Of Doing Things.

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Education Is Not The Means Of Showing People How To Get What They Want. Education Is An Exercise By Means Of Which Enough Men, It Is Hoped, Will Learn To Want What Is Worth Having.

I've Often Wondered About The Shyness Of Some Of Us In The West About Standing For These Ideals That Have Done So Much To Ease The Plight Of Man And The Hardships Of Our Imperfect World. Let Us Be Shy No Longer. Let Us Go To Our Strength. Let Us Offer Hope. Let Us Tell The World That A New Age Is Not Only Possible, But Probable.

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

You Know, By The Time You Reach My Age, You've Made Plenty Of Mistakes If You've Lived Your Life Properly.

The Current Tax Code Is A Daily Mugging.

Freedom Prospers Only Where The Blessings Of God Are Avidly Sought, And Humbly Accepted.

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Whatever Else History May Say About Me When I'm Gone, I Hope It Will Record That I Appealed To Your Best Hopes, Not Your Worst Fears; To Your Confidence Rather Than Your Doubts. My Dream Is That You Will Travel The Road Ahead With Liberty's Lamp Guiding Your Steps And Opportunity's Arm Steadying Your Way.

God's Miracles Are To Be Found In Nature Itself; The Wind And Waves, The Wood That Becomes A Tree - All Of These Are Explained Biologically, But Behind Them Is The Hand Of God.

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History Comes And History Goes, But Principles Endure, And Ensure Future Generations Will Defend Liberty Not As A Gift From Government But As A Blessing From Our Creator.

We Seek A Constitutional Amendment To Permit Voluntary School Prayer. God Should Never Have Been Expelled From America's Classrooms In The First Place.

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.

...i Believe That It Is Not Enough, As I Said, To Tinker At The Margins Of U.s. Immigration Law... The United States Must Institute Comprehensive Reforms That Conform To The Realities Of The Era In Which We Live.

The Crew Of The Space Shuttle Challenger Honored Us By The Manner In Which They Lived Their Lives.

To This Day, America Is Still The Abiding Alternative To Tyranny. This Is Our Purpose In The World, Nothing More And Nothing Less.

I'm Not A Politician By Profession. I Am A Citizen Who Decided I Had To Be Personally Involved In Order To Stand Up For My Own Values And Beliefs. My Candidacy Is Based On My Record, And For That Matter, My Entire Life.

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?

It's Hard, When You're Up To Your Armpits In Alligators, To Remember You Came Here To Drain The Swamp.

America Is A Melting Pot, And Education Has Been A Mainspring For Our Democracy And Freedom, A Means Of Providing Gifts Of Knowledge And Opportunity To All Citizens, No Matter How Humble Their Background, So They Could Climb Higher, Help Build The American Dream, And Leave A Better Life For Those Who Follow.

I Want You To Know That This Administration Is Motivated By A Political Philosophy That Sees The Greatness Of America In You, Her People, And In Your Families, Churches, Neighborhoods, Communities - The Institutions That Foster And Nourish Values Like Concern For Others And Respect For The Rule Of Law Under God.

I Have Seen The Rise Of Fascism And Communism. Both Philosophies Glorify The Arbitrary Power Of The State... But Both Theories Fail. Both Deny Those God-given Liberties That Are The Inalienable Right Of Each Person On This Planet, Indeed, They Deny The Existence Of God.

The Work Of Volunteer Groups Throughout Our Country Represents The Very Heart And Soul Of America. They Have Helped Make This The Most Compassionate, Generous, And Humane Society That Ever Existed On The Face Of This Earth.

We Can Meet Our Destiny, And That Destiny To Build A Land Here That Will Be, For All Mankind, A Shining City On A Hill.

You And I Are Told We Must Choose Between A Left Or Right, But I Suggest There Is No Such Thing As A Left Or Right. There Is Only An Up Or Down. Up To Man's Age-old Dream -- The Maximum Of Individual Freedom Consistent With Order --or Down To The Ant Heap Of Totalitarianism. Regardless Of Their Sincerity, Their Humanitarian Motives, Those Who Would Sacrifice Freedom For Security Have Embarked On This Downward Path.

The Frustrating Thing Is That Those Who Are Attacking Religion Claim They Are Doing It In The Name Of Tolerance, Freedom And Openmindedness. Question: Isn't The Real Truth That They Are Intolerant Of Religion? They Refuse To Tolerate Its Importance In Our Lives.

In The 38th Chapter Of Ezekiel, It Says That The Land Of Israel Will Come Under Attack By The Armies Of The Ungodly Nations, And It Says That Libya Will Be Among Them. Do You Understand The Significance Of That? Libya Has Now Gone Communist, And That's A Sign That The Day Of Armageddon Isn't Far Off.

I Know In My Heart That Man Is Good. That What Is Right Will Always Eventually Triumph. And There's Purpose And Worth To Each And Every Life.

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Today, We're Taking A Break From The Concerns And The Bustle Of The Work-a-day World. But We're Also Making A New Beginning. As We Gather Around Our Dining Room Tables For The Midday Meal, Let Us Thank God For Life And The Blessings He's Put Before Us. High Among Them Are Our Families, Our Freedom, And The Opportunities Of A New Year.

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There Is No Security, No Safety, In The Appeasement Of Evil.

My Dream Is That You Will Travel The Road Ahead With Liberty's Lamp Guiding Your Steps And Opportunity's Arm Steadying Your Way.

Thomas Jefferson Once Said. He Said , "we Should Never Judge A President By His Age, Only By His Works." And Ever Since He Told Me That, I've Stopped Worrying. There Are Those Who Say I've Stopped Working.

The Best View Of Big Government Is In The Rearview Mirror As We Leave It Behind.

Law And Freedom Must Be Indivisible Partners. For Without Law, There Can Be No Freedom, Only Choas And Disorder; And Without Freedom, Law Is But A Cynical Veneer For Injustice And Oppression.

Americans Are Hungering To Feel Proud And Patriotic Again.

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

Poland Is At The Center Of European Civilization. It Has Contributed Mightily To That Civilization. It Is Doing So Today By Being Magnificently Unreconciled To Oppression. Poland's Struggle To Be Poland And To Secure The Basic Rights We Often Take For Granted, Demonstrates Why We Dare Not Take Those Rights For Granted.

I Deplore The Tendency, In Some Institutions, To Go Directly Toward Training For A Trade Or Profession Or Something And Ignoring The Liberal Arts. It Is The Foundation Of Education.

Bureaucracy Is Adept At Protecting Its Nest.

More Than A Decade Ago, A Supreme Court Decision Literally Wiped Off The Books Of Fifty States Statutes Protecting The Rights Of Unborn Children. Abortion On Demand Now Takes The Lives Of Up To 1.5 Million Unborn Children A Year. Human Life Legislation Ending This Tragedy Will Some Day Pass The Congress, And You And I Must Never Rest Until It Does. Unless And Until It Can Be Proven That The Unborn Child Is Not A Living Entity, Then Its Right To Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit Of Happiness Must Be Protected.

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With Regard To The Freedom Of The Individual For Choice With Regard To Abortion, There Is One Individual Who Is Not Being Considered At All, And That Is The One Who Is Being Aborted. And I Have Noticed That Everybody That Is For Abortion Has Already Been Born.

Nations Do Not Distrust Each Other Because They Are Armed. They Are Armed Because They Distrust Each Other.

Our Problems Are Both Acute And Chronic, Yet All We Hear From Those In Positions Of Leadership Are The Same Tired Proposals For More Government Tinkering, More Meddling And More Control---all Of Which Led Us To This State In The First Place... We Must Have The Clarity Of Vision To See The Difference Between What Is Essential And What Is Merely Desirable, And Then The Courage To Bring Our Government Back Under Control And Make It Acceptable To The People.

There Are No Easy Answers' But There Are Simple Answers. We Must Have The Courage To Do What We Know Is Morally Right.

Our Founding Fathers Well Understood That Concentrated Power Is The Enemy Of Liberty And The Rights Of Man. They Knew That The American Experiment In Individual Liberty, Free Enterprise And Republican Self-government Could Succeed Only If Power Were Widely Distributed. And Since In Any Society Social And Political Power Flow From Economic Power, They Saw That Wealth And Property Would Have To Be Widely Distributed Among The People Of The Country. The Truth Of This Insight Is Immediately Apparent.

I Call Upon The Scientific Community In Our Country, Those Who Gave Us Nuclear Weapons, To Turn Their Great Talents Now To The Cause Of Mankind And World Peace: To Give Us The Means Of Rendering These Nuclear Weapons Impotent And Obsolete.

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.

Growing And Decaying Vegetation In This Land Are Responsible For 93 Percent Of The Oxides Of Nitrogen.

Professional Politicians Like To Talk About The Value Of Experience In Government. Nuts! The Only Experience You Gain In Politics Is How To Be Political.

You On The Cutting Edge Of Technology Have Already Made Yesterday's Impossibilities The Commonplace Realities Of Today.

No Nation In History Has Ever Survived A Tax Burden That Reached A Third Of Its National Income.

When Government Gets Too Big, Freedom Is Lost. Government Is Supposed To Be The Servant. But When A Government Can Tax The People With No Limit Or Restraint On What The Government Can Take, Then The Government Has Become The Master.

God, The Source Of Our Knowledge, Has Been Expelled From The Classroom. He Gives Us His Greatest Blessing, Life, And Yet Many Would Condone The Taking Of Innocent Life. We Expect Him To Protect Us In A Crisis, But Turn Away From Him Too Often In Our Day-to-day Living. I Wonder If He Isn't Waiting For Us To Wake Up.

Our Federal Tax System Is, In Short, Utterly Impossible, Utterly Unjust And Completely Counterproductive . . . [it] Reeks With Injustice, And Is Fundamentally Un-american

A Truly Successful Army Is One That, Because Of Its Strength And Ability And Dedication, Will Not Be Called Upon To Fight, For No One Will Dare To Provoke It.

Admittedly, There Is A Risk In Any Course We Follow Other Than This, But Every Lesson In History Tells Us That The Greater Risk Lies In Appeasement, And This Is The Specter Our Well-meaning Liberal Friends Refuse To Face.

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

I'm Convinced That Today The Majority Of Americans Want What Those First Americans Wanted: A Better Life For Themselves And Their Children; A Minimum Of Government Authority.

I Miss Going To Church, But I Think The Lord Understands.

Well, I Think There Has To Be Some (gun) Control.

Christmas Can Be Celebrated In The School Room With Pine Trees, Tinsel And Reindeers, But There Must Be No Mention Of The Man Whose Birthday Is Being Celebrated. One Wonders How A Teacher Would Answer If A Student Asked Why It Was Called Christmas.

Today A Newcomer To The State Is Automatically Eligible For Our Many Aid Programs The Moment He Crosses The Border.

All Of Us Can See What Happens Once You Establish The Precedent That The Government Can Determine A Man's Working Place And His Working Methods, Determine His Employment. From Here It's A Short Step To All The Rest Of Socialism, To Determining His Pay....he Will Wait For The Government To Tell Him Where He Will Go To Work And What He Will Do.

You Can Tell Alot About A Fellow's Character By His Way Of Eating Jellybeans.

Eighty Percent Of Air Pollution Comes From Plants And Trees.

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

There Were So Many Candidates On The Platform That There Were Not Enough Promises To Go Around.

Man Is Not Free Unless Government Is Limited.

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

We Have Consistently Supported A Legalization Program Which Is Both Generous To The Alien And Fair To The Countless Thousands Of People Throughout The World Who Seek Legally To Come To America. The Legalization Provisions In This Act Will Go Far To Improve The Lives Of A Class Of Individuals Who Now Must Hide In The Shadows, Without Access To Many Of The Benefits Of A Free And Open Society. Very Soon Many Of These Men And Women Will Be Able To Step Into The Sunlight And, Ultimately, If They Choose, They May Become Americans.

Entrepreneurs And Their Small Enterprises Are Responsible For Almost All The Economic Growth In The United States.

When A Child Loses His Parent, They Are Called An Orphan. When A Spouse Loses Her Or His Partner, They Are Called A Widow Or Widower. When Parents Lose Their Child, Their Isn't A Word To Describe Them. This Month Recognizes The Loss So Many Parents Experience Across The United States And Around The World. It Is Also Meant To Inform And Provide Resources For Parents Who Have Lost Children Due To Miscarriage, Ectopic Pregnancy, Molar Pregnancy, Stillbirths, Birth Defects, Sids, And Other Causes.

The Founders Of The United Nations Expected That Member Nations Would Behave And Vote As Individuals After They Had Weighed The Merits Of An Issue - Rather Like A Great, Global Town Meeting. The Emergence Of Blocks And The Polarization Of The United Nations Undermine All That This Organization Initially Valued.

The Vote On The Peacekeeper Is Also A Vote On Geneva. Rejecting The Peacekeeper Will Knock The Legs Out From Under The Negotiating Table. (on Importance Of The Mx Missile)

I Think It's Time We Ask Ourselves If We Still Know The Freedoms That Were Intended For Us By The Founding Fathers... Whether We Believe In Our Capacity For Self-government Or Whether We Abandon The American Revolution And Confess That A Little Intellectual Elite In A Far-distant Capital Can Plan Our Lives For Us Better Than We Can Plan Them For Ourselves.

[the Soviets] Preach The Supremacy Of The State, Declare Its Omnipotence Over Individual Man, And Predict Its Eventual Domination Of All Peoples On The Earth; They Are The Focus Of Evil In The Modern World.

Inflation Is As Violent As A Mugger, As Frightening As An Armed Robber And As Deadly As A Hit Man.

Please Tell Me You're Republicans.

I Received A Letter Just Before I Left Office From A Man. I Don't Know Why He Chose To Write It, But I'm Glad He Did. He Wrote That You Can Go To Live In France, But You Can't Become A Frenchman. You Can Go To Live In Germany Or Italy, But You Can't Become A German, An Italian. He Went Through Turkey, Greece, Japan And Other Countries. But He Said Anyone, From Any Corner Of The World, Can Come To Live In The United States And Become An American.

Peace Is More Than Just An Absence Of War. True Peace Is Justice, True Peace Is Freedom, And True Peace Dictates The Recognition Of Human Rights.

For The Average American, The Message Is Clear. Liberalism Is No Longer The Answer. It Is The Problem.

In This Present Crisis, Government Is Not The Solution To Our Problem, Government Is The Problem. It Isn't So Much That Liberals Are Ignorant, It's Just That They Know So Much That Isn't So.

Freedom Is Not The Sole Prerogative Of A Chosen Few, But The Universal Right Of All God's Children.

When I've Heard All I Need To Make A Decision, I Don't Take A Vote. I Make A Decision.

There Is No Institution More Vital To Our Nation's Survival Than The American Family. Here The Seeds Of Personal Character Are Planted, The Roots Of Public Virtue First Nourished. Through Love And Instruction, Discipline, Guidance And Example, We Learn From Our Mothers And Fathers The Values That Will Shape Our Private Lives And Our Public Citizenship.

Government Can And Must Provide Opportunity, Not Smother It; Foster Productivity; Not Stifle It.

We're Here To Mark That Day In History When The Allied Peoples Joined In Battle To Reclaim This Continent To Liberty. For Four Long Years, Much Of Europe Had Been Under A Terrible Shadow. Free Nations Had Fallen, Jews Cried Out In The Camps, Millions Cried Out For Liberation. Europe Was Enslaved, And The World Prayed For Its Rescue. Here In Normandy The Rescue Began. Here The Allies Stood And Fought Against Tyranny In A Giant Undertaking Unparalleled In Human History.

The Size Of The Federal Budget Is Not An Appropriate Barometer Of Social Conscience Or Charitable Concern.

My Central Arms Control Objective Has Been To Reduce Substantially And Ultimately To Eliminate Nuclear Weapons And Rid The World Of The Nuclear Threat. The Prevention Of The Spread Of Nuclear Explosives Is To Additional Countries Is An Indispensable Part Of Our Efforts To Meet This Objective. I Intend To Continue My Pursuit Of This Goal With Untiring Determination And A Profound Sense Of Personal Commitment.

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

I Thought The Function Of The Government Was To Promote The General Welfare, Not To Provide It.

. . . I Hope That When You're My Age, You'll Be Able To Say As I Have Been Able To Say: We Lived In Freedom, We Lived Lives That Were A Statement, Not An Apology.

I Have Learned That One Of The Most Important Rules In Politics Is Poise - Which Means Looking Like An Owl After You Have Behaved Like A Jackass.

[our Goal] Is To Help Revive America's Traditional Values: Faith, Family, Neighborhood, Work And Freedom. Government Has No Business Enforcing These Values But Neither Must It Seek, As It Did In The Recent Past, To Suppress Or Replace Them. That Only Robbed Us Of Our Tiller And Set Us Adrift. Helping To Restore These Values Will Bring New Strength, Direction And Dignity To Our Lives And To The Life Of Our Nation. It's On These Values That We'll Best Build Our Future.

I Supported This Bill. I Believe In The Idea Of Amnesty For Those Who Have Put Down Roots And Who Have Lived Here Even Though Sometime Back They May Have Entered Illegally.

Every New Day Begins With Possibilities.

New Possibilities

If A Tax Hike Makes It To My Desk, I'll Veto It In Less Time Than It Takes Vanna White To Turn The Letters V-e-t-o!

I Have A Feeling That We Are Doing Better In The War Than The People Have Been Told.

We Have Every Right To Dream Heroic Dreams.

The Ongoing Migration Of Persons To The United States In Violation Of Our Laws Is A Serious National Problem Detrimental To The Interests Of The United States.

We're The Party That Wants To See An America In Which People Can Still Get Rich.

Although I Held Public Office For A Total Of Sixteen Years, I Also Thought Of Myself As A Citizen-politician, Not A Career One. Every Now And Then When I Was In Government, I Would Remind My Associates That "when We Start Thinking Of Government As 'us' Instead Of 'them,' We've Been Here Too Long." By That I Mean That Elected Officeholders Need To Retain A Certain Skepticism About The Perfectibility Of Government.

He Will Long Be Remembered As One Of The Great Christian Thinkers Of Our Century, With A Childlike Faith And A Profound Compassion Toward Others. It Can Rarely Be Said Of An Individual That His Life Touched Many Others And Affected Them For The Better; It Will Be Said Of Francis Schaeffer That His Life Touched Millions Of Souls And Brought Them To The Truth Of Their Creator.

When People Tell Me That I Became President On January 20th, 1981, I Feel I Have To Correct Them. You Don't Become President Of The United States. You Are Given Temporary Custody Of An Institution Called The Presidency, Which Belongs To Our People.

The Man Who Puts Into The Marriage Only Half Of What He Owns Will Get That Out.

You Know, It Was Only A Generation Ago That Actors Couldn't Be Buried In The Churchyard.

I Know All The Bad Things That Happened In That War. I Was In Uniform Four Years Myself.

For Centuries The Bible's Emphasis On Compassion And Love For Our Neighbor Has Inspired Institutional And Governmental Expressions Of Benevolent Outreach Such As Private Charity, The Establishment Of Schools And Hospitals, And The Abolition Of Slavery.

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.

I, For One, Resent It When A Representative Of The People Refers To You And Me, The Free Men And Women Of This Country, As 'the Masses.'

All Great Change In America Begins At The Dinner Table.

In Some Dim Beginning, Man Created The Institution Of Government As A Convenience For Himself. And, Ever Since That Time, Government Has Been Doing Its Best To Become An Inconvenience.

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.

Regimes Planted By Bayonets Do Not Take Root.

Our Government Needs The Church, Because Only Those Humble Enough To Admit They're Sinners Can Bring Democracy The Tolerance It Requires To Survive

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

There Is Purpose And Worth To Each And Every Life.

For An America Of Wisdom That Honors The Family, Knowing That If The Family Goes, So Goes Our Civilization.

A Bird On A Tether, No Matter How Long The Rope, Can Always Be Pulled Back.

The United States And The Freedom For Which It Stands, The Freedom For Which They Died, Must Endure And Prosper. Their Lives Remind Us That Freedom Is Not Bought Cheaply. It Has A Cost; It Imposes A Burden. And Just As They Whom We Commemorate Were Willing To Sacrifice, So Too Must We - In A Less Final, Less Heroic Way - Be Willing To Give Of Ourselves.

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.

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