R.D. Ronald Quotes

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.

I don't know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it. It reminded me a lot of my job as governor.

I have a feeling that we are doing better in the war than the people have been told.

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?

When the Lord calls me home, whenever that may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this county of ours and eternal optimism for its future.

The time has come to match outgo to income, instead of always doing it the other way around.

In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to make both horrendous mistakes and glorious celebrations.

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.

I'm beginning to wonder if the symbol of the United States pretty soon isn't going to be an ambassador with a flag under his arm climbing into an escape helicopter.

The other day, someone told me the difference between a democracy and a people's democracy. It's the same difference between a jacket and a straitjacket.

Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats.

Everywhere we go, Nancy makes the world a little better.

I doubt evolution is real.

Indeed, it is an indisputable fact that all the complex and horrendous questions confronting us at home and worldwide have their answer in that single book [the Bible].

But I also happen to be someone who believes in tithing--the giving of a tenth .

I'm convinced, more than ever, that man finds liberation only when he binds himself to God and commits himself to his fellow man.

The family has always been the cornerstone of American society.

Hope remains the highest reality, the age-old power.

America has never gotten in a war because we were too strong.

We intend to keep the peace - we will also keep our freedom.

The fourth landing of the Columbia is the historical equivalent of the driving of the golden spike which completed the first transcontinental railroad. It marks our entrance into a new era.

While other [military] alliances have been formed to win wars, our fundamental purpose is to prevent war while preserving and extending the frontiers of freedom.

If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

Today it is difficult to find leaders who are independent of the forces that have brought us our problems: The Congress, the bureaucracy, the lobbyists, big business, and big labor.

Let's face it.., our current [immigration control] system is like a busy intersection without a traffic cop: sure there are laws on the books, but absent enforcement, there are too many accidents.

I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things.

The United States trades more with the province of Ontario alone than with Japan.

Elena, my four year old, says to me in all seriousness; "Mommy, you need to buy another baby".

Too often, people forget the basic fact of life: all those good things we enjoy come from the ache in [our] backs and the willingness to shoulder great personals risks.

Why should the government subsidize intellectual curiosity?

Jesse Helms wants me to move to the right, Lowell Weiker wants me to move to the left, and Teddy Kennedy wants me to move back to California.

The [Carter] administration doesn't know the difference between a diplomat and a doormat.

Someone told me it was a round thing that gobbles up money. I thought that was Tip O'Neill.

You can never underestimate the ability of the Democrats to wet their finger and hold it in the wind.

Wearing love beads and touting our sincerity will not make this a safer world.

It's just too bad we can't have an epidemic of botulism.

When PLO sniper fire is followed by 14 hours of Israeli bombardment, that's stretching the definition of defensive action too far.

Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating.

If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now.

I don't have too much time for fiction.

You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard.

You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday's impossibilities the commonplace realities of today.

I think we should keep the grain and export the farmers.

Dreams became issues of East versus West. Hopes became political rhetoric. Progress became a search for power and domination. Somewhere the truth was lost that people don't make war, governments do.

These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America's founding fathers.

I do not feel betrayed. ... He has a fine record. He is a national hero. (On Oliver L North's work)

I just don't think it's good for us to be run out of town. (Refusing to cancel Secretary of State visit to Moscow)

If I thought there was some reason to be concerned about them, I wouldn't be sleeping in this house tonight. (When asked about continued presence of Soviet nuclear submarines along US coastlines)

Please assure me that you are all Republicans.

For too long, the victims of crime have been the forgotten persons of our criminal justice system.