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When The Labor Department Is Forced To Relent And Let These Visitors Do This Work It Is Of Course All Legal. But It Makes One Wonder About The Illegal Alien Fuss. Are Great Numbers Of Our Unemployed Really Victims Of The Illegal Alien Invasion Or Are Those Illegal Tourists Actually Doing Work Our Own People Won't Do? One Thing Is Certain In This Hungry World; No Regulation Or Law Should Be Allowed If It Results In Crops Rotting In The Field For Lack Of Harvesters.

-Ronald Reagan

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When The Labor Department Is Forced To Relent And Let These Visitors Do This Work It Is Of Course All Legal. But It Makes One Wonder About The Illegal Alien Fuss. Are Great Numbers Of Our Unemployed Really Victims Of The Illegal Alien Invasion Or Are Those Illegal Tourists Actually Doing Work Our Own People Won't Do? One Thing Is Certain In This Hungry World; No Regulation Or Law Should Be Allowed If It Results In Crops Rotting In The Field For Lack Of Harvesters.

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Some May Try To Tell Us That This Is The End Of An Era. But What They Overlook Is That In America, Every Day Is A New Beginning. For This Is The Land That Has Never Become, But Is Always In The Act Of Becoming.

For Too Long, The Victims Of Crime Have Been The Forgotten Persons Of Our Criminal Justice System.

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.

. . . Government Should Do Only Those Things The People Cannot Do For Themselves.

How Do You Tell A Communist? Well, It's Someone Who Reads Marx And Lenin. And How Do You Tell An Anti-communist? It's Someone Who Understands Marx And Lenin.

I Sometimes Think Adam And Eve Were Russians. They Didn't Have A Roof Over Their Head, Nothing To Wear, But They Had One Apple Between Them And They Thought That Was Paradise.

Politics Is Not A Bad Profession. If You Succeed There Are Many Rewards, If You Disgrace Yourself You Can Always Write A Book.

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.

Revolution Means Democracy In Today's World, Not The Enslavement Of Peoples To The Corrupt And Degrading Horrors Of Totalitarianism

As Government Expands, Liberty Contracts.

I'm Not A Politician By Profession. I Am A Citizen Who Decided I Had To Be Personally Involved.

I Looked Out The Window And Saw This White Light.it Was Zigzagging Around. I Went Up To The Pilot And Said,have You Ever Seen Anything Like That? He Was Shocked And He Said, "nope." And I Said To Him: "let's Follow It!" We Followed It For Several Minutes. It Was A Bright White Light.we Followed It To Bakersfield, And All Of A Sudden To Our Utter Amazement It Went Straight Up Into The Heavens. When I Got Off The Plane I Told Nancy All About It.

I Don't Know Why Anyone Would Want To Study The Expansion Of The Universe.

Anytime You And I Question The Schemes Of The Do-gooders, We're Denounced As Being Against Their Humanitarian Goals. They Say We're Always "against" Things-we're Never "for" Anything. Well, The Trouble With Our Liberal Friends Is Not That They're Ignorant; It's Just That They Know So Much That Isn't So.

I Would Have Voted Against The Civil Rights Act Of 1964.

How Does It Feel To Be The 's Third Choice? Humiliating? You Could Have Thrown A Dart. That's How Close They Were. We Had So Many Excellent Candidates.

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.'

Approximately 80% Of Our Air Pollution Stems From Hydrocarbons Released By Vegetation, So Let's Not Go Overboard In Setting And Enforcing Tough Emission Standards From Man-made Sources.

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

Sometimes When I'm Faced With An Atheist, I Am Tempted To Invite Him To The Greatest Gourmet Dinner That One Could Ever Serve, And When We Have Finished Eating That Magnificent Dinner, To Ask Him If He Believes There's A Cook.

Some Years Ago A Top Ford Official Was Showing The Late Walter Reuther Through The Very Automates Plant In Cleveland, Ohio And He Said To Him Jokingly, "walter, You'll Have A Hard Time Collecting Union Dues From These Machines." And Walter Said, "you Are Going To Have More Trouble Trying To Sell Automobiles To Them." Both Of Them Let It Stop There. There Was A Logical Answer To That ... The Owners Of The Machines Could Buy Automobiles And If You Increase The Number Of Owners You Increase The Number Of Consumers.

We're Entering Our Third Century Now, But It's Wrong To Judge Our Nation By Its Years. The Calendar Can't Measure America Because We Were Meant To Be An Endless Experiment In Freedom, With No Limits To Our Reaches, No Boundaries To What We Can Do, No End Point To Our Hopes.

Freedom Is A Fragile Thing And Is Never More Than One Generation Away From Extinction. It Is Not Ours By Inheritance; It Must Be Fought For And Defended Constantly By Each Generation, For It Comes Only Once To A People. Those Who Have Known Freedom, And Then Lost It, Have Never Known It Again.

America Must Remain Freedom's Staunchest Friend, For Freedom Is Our Best Ally And It Is The World's Only Hope To Conquer Poverty And Preserve Peace.

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.

A Nation's Greatness Is Measured Not Just By Its Gross National Product Or Military Power, But By The Strength Of Its Devotion To The Principles And Values That Bind Its People And Define Their Character.

Surround Yourself With The Best People You Can Find, Delegate Authority, And Don't Interfere As Long As The Policy You've Decided Upon Is Being Carried Out.

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.

We Who Live In Free Market Societies Believe That Growth, Prosperity And Ultimately Human Fulfillment, Are Created From The Bottom Up, Not The Government Down.

Politics Is, For Me, Forgive And -as You May Have Heard- Sometimes Forget.

This Is The Real Task Before Us: To Reassert Our Commitment As A Nation To A Law Higher Than Our Own, To Renew Our Spiritual Strength. Only By Building A Wall Of Such Spiritual Resolve Can We, As A Free People, Hope To Protect Our Own Heritage And Make It Someday The Birthright Of All Men.

Cold, Hungry, Scared As Hell Inside, But Too Damn Brave To Admit It.

Doverey, No Proverey - Trust But Verify.

Show Me An Executive That Works Long Hard Hours And I'll Show You A Bad Executive.

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