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We Have Seen Numerous Instances In Which American Businesses Have Brought In Foreign Skilled Workers After Having Laid Off Skilled American Workers, Simply Because They Can Get The Foreign Workers More Cheaply. It Has Become A Major Means Of Circumventing The Costs Of Paying Skilled American Workers Or The Costs Of Training Them.

-Ronald Reagan

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We Have Seen Numerous Instances In Which American Businesses Have Brought In Foreign Skilled Workers After Having Laid Off Skilled American Workers, Simply Because They Can Get The Foreign Workers More Cheaply. It Has Become A Major Means Of Circumventing The Costs Of Paying Skilled American Workers Or The Costs Of Training Them.

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I'm A Sucker For Hero Worship.

Our Economic Assistance Must Be Carefully Targeted, And Must Make Maximum Use Of The Energy And Efforts Of The Private Sector... Economic Freedom Is The World's Mightiest Engine For Abundance And Social Justice... Developing Countries Need To Be Encouraged To Experiment With A Growing Variety Of Arrangements For Profit Sharing And Expanded Capital Ownership.

Yes, Deficits Are A Problem. I've Been Saying So For More Than A Quarter Of A Century Now. But The Problem Is Not The Size Of The Deficit, It's The Size Of Government's Claim On Our Economy.

My Fellow Citizens, Our Nation Is Poised For Greatness. We Must Do What We Know Is Right, And Do It With All Our Might. Let History Say Of Us: "these Were Golden Years - When The American Revolution Was Reborn, When Freedom Gained New Life, And America Reached For Her Best."

There Is Purpose And Worth To Each And Every Life.

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

Government Welfare

A Strong American Economy Is Essential To The Well-being And Security Of Our Friends And Allies.

Abraham Lincoln Freed The Black Man. In Many Ways, Dr. King Freed The White Man. How Did He Accomplish This Tremendous Feat? Where Others - White And Black - Preached Hatred, He Taught The Principles Of Love And Nonviolence.

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.

There Are No Words To Express The Extraordinary Strength And Character Of This Breed Of People We Call American. They Are The Kind Of Men And Women Tom Paine Had In Mind When He Wrote, During The Darkest Days Of The American Revolution, We Have It In Our Power To Begin The World Over Again.

America's Best Days Are Yet To Come.

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.

You And I Have The Courage To Say To Our Enemies, 'there Is A Price We Will Not Pay.' There Is A Point Beyond Which They Must Not Advance. This Is The Meaning Of The Phrase 'peace Through Strength.'

One Way To Make Sure Crime Doesn't Pay Would Be To Let The Government Run It.

I Warned That There Should Be No Place On Earth Where Terrorists Can Rest And Train And Practice Their Deadly Skills. I Meant It. I Said That We Would Act With Others, If Possible, And Alone If Necessary To Ensure That Terrorists Have No Sanctuary Anywhere. Tonight, We Have.

Words Are Even More Feeble On This Memorial Day, For The Sight Before Us Is That Of A Strong And Good Nation That Stands In Silence And Remembers Those Who Were Loved And Who, In Return, Loved Their Countrymen Enough To Die For Them.

If You Can't Summarize An Issue On One Page, You Don't Understand The Issue Well Enough.

Eighty Percent Of Air Pollution Comes From Plants And Trees.

The Declaration Of Independence And The Constitution Of These United States Are Covenants We Have Made Not Only With Ourselves, But With All Mankind. Our Founding Documents Proclaim To The World That Freedom Is Not The Sole Prerogative Of A Chosen Few. It Is The Universal Right Of All God's Children.

Cannot Swords Be Turned To Plowshares? Can We And All Nations Not Live In Peace? In Our Obsession With Antagonisms Of The Moment, We Often Forget How Much Unites All The Members Of Humanity. Perhaps We Need Some Outside, Universal Threat To Make Us Recognize This Common Bond. I Occasionally Think How Quickly Our Differences Worldwide Would Vanish If We Were Facing An Alien Threat From Outside This World. And Yet, I Ask You, Is Not An Alien Force Already Among Us? What Could Be More Alien To The Universal Aspirations Of Our Peoples Than War And The Threat Of War?

Only Our Deep Moral Values And Our Strong Social Institutions Can Hold Back That Jungle And Restrain The Darker Impulses Of Human Nature.

With All This Talk About The Supposed Strain In Relations [with The Soviet Union], There Is An Inference That Somehow It Is Our Fault. But We Didn't Kill Russian Civilians By Shooting Down A Civilian Airplane. We Didn't Attempt To Conquer An Adjacent Country To Ours. We Didn't Walk Out On Negotiations And Refuse To Give A Date For When We Would Resume.

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

Tyranny, Like Fog In The Well Known Poem, Often Creeps In Silently 'on Little Cat Feet.'

I'm Convinced, More Than Ever, That Man Finds Liberation Only When He Binds Himself To God And Commits Himself To His Fellow Man.

So In Your Discussions Of The Nuclear Freeze Proposals, I Urge You To Beware The Temptation Of Pride - The Temptation Blithely To Declare Yourselves Above It All And Label Both Sides Equally At Fault, To Ignore The Facts Of History And The Aggressive Impulses Of An Evil Empire, To Simply Call The Arms Race A Giant Misunderstanding And Thereby Remove Yourself From The Struggle Between Right And Wrong, Good And Evil.

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