Ronald Reagan the President, biography, facts and quotes

"Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first"

"I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse"

"The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination"

"My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes"

"There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right"

"There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect"

"No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting"

"The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job"

"The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts"

"I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress"

"We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child"

"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"

"If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under"

"You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed"

"You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans"

"Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure"

"Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face"

"While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future"

"When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat"

"What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice"

"Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence"

"Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world"

"Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders"

"Trust, but verify"

"Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse"

"Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong"

"To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will"

"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"

"Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying"

"They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong"

"There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder"

"Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem"

"Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15"

"Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours"

"Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing"

"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book"

"Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close"

"People do not make wars; governments do"

"Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means"

"One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it"

"Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is"

"Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith"

"Latinos are Republican. They just don't know it yet"

"It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?"

"It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas"

"It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available"

"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first"

"It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts"

"Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders"

"Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man"

Occup.	President
From	USA
Born	February 6, 1911
Died	June 5, 2004
Aged	93 years

Ronald Reagan Biography

94 Famous quotes by Ronald Reagan