Ronald Reagan Quotes

I've said it before and I'll say it again. The U.S. Geological Survey has told me that the proven potential for oil in Alaska alone is greater than the proven reserves in Saudi Arabia.

... the moral equal of our Founding Fathers.

I know all the bad things that happened in that war. I was in uniform four years myself.

They've done away with those committees. That shows the success of what the Soviets were able to do in this country.

We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years.

Today a newcomer to the state is automatically eligible for our many aid programs the moment he crosses the border.

... a faceless mass, waiting for handouts.

We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry each night. Well that was probably true. They were all on a diet.

How could an actor become president?

Where there's liberty, art succeeds.

Well, my head's full of questions My temp'rature's risin' fast Well, I'm lookin' for some answers But I don't know who to ask

Without a vision the people perish.

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.

I never thought it was my style or the words I used that made a difference. It was the content. I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things.

Could there be a better answer to the stupidity of Karl Marx than millions of workers individually sharing in the ownership of the means of production.

I remain California-bound

I usually never walk by a microphone.

You can achieve anything in politics provided that you let someone else take the credit.

We didn't discover our values in a poll taken a week before the convention.

It's not fair to say that Congress spends money like a drunk sailor. At least the sailor is spending his own money!

The Bible tells us there will be a time for peace. But, so far in this century, mankind has failed to find it.

We should never fear to negotiate, nor negotiate from fear.

I don't want to do a TV series. It's no fun working from dawn to sunset every day. An occasional movie would be fine, and then I'll see what might develop on the political front.

I have decided that whatever time I may have left is left for Him.

I think people have a need to feel good about the country they live in, but what's happening, I think, is that that need - which is a good thing - is getting manipulated and exploited.

I sometimes think if someone appealed the Ten Commandments to some of our courts, they would rule - 'Thou shalt not, unless you feel strongly to the contrary'.

Through the history of our nation, Americans have always extended their hands in gestures of assistance.

A drastic reduction in the deficit...will take place in the fiscal year '82.

America's best days lie ahead. You ain't seen nothing yet.

Don't let anyone tell you that America's best days are behind her - that the American spirit has been vanquished. We've seen it triumph too often in our lives to stop believing in it now.

I've always believed that we were, each of us, put here for a reason, that there is a plan, somehow a divine plan for all of us. I know now that whatever days are left to me belong to him.

Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself.

State problems should involve state solutions.

You get a little stir crazy during the week.

To do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom.

If we miss this chance to make a fresh start, we may look back on this moment from some later vantage point and realize how much that failure cost us all.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

By emphasizing the importance of a common language, we safeguard a proud legacy and help to ensure that America's future will be as great as her past.

Throughout our history, We Americans have been willing to meet great challenges and do what is right when our destiny demanded it.

We are going to put an end to the notion that the American taxpayer exists to fund the Federal Government.

The things that unite us-America's past of which we are so proud, our hopes and aspirations for the future of the world and this much loved country-these things far outweigh what little divides us.

Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will.

Even now I wonder what I might have accomplished if I'd studied harder

The state of California has no business subsidizing intellectual curiosity.

What does an actor know about politics?

Trains are not any more energy efficient than the average automobile, with both getting about 48 passenger miles to the gallon.

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.

We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life -- the unborn -- without diminishing the value of all human life . . . there is no cause more important.

A bird on a tether, no matter how long the rope, can always be pulled back.

We may be the generation that sees Armageddon.