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| And if you answer all of those questions yes, why then, I think your choice is very obvious as to whom you will vote for. If you don't agree, if you don't think this course that we've been on for the last four years is what you would like to see us follow for the next four, then I could suggest another choice that you have. | | Uncategorized | |
| Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never gets done as soon as you wish it would. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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 | | Uncategorized | |
| Are you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community? Realize that the doctor's fight against socialized medicine is your fight. We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients. Recognize that government invasion of public power is eventually an assault upon your own business. If some among you fear taking a stand because you are afraid of reprisals from customers, clients, or even government, recognize that you are just feeding the crocodile hoping he'll eat you last. (October 27, 1964) | | Uncategorized | |
| As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it. | | Uncategorized | |
| Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement. | | Uncategorized | |
| Being free and prosperous in a world at peace. That's our ultimate goal. | | Uncategorized | |
| But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. | | Uncategorized | |
| Common sense told us that when you put a big tax on something, the people will produce less of it. So we cut the people's tax rates, and the people produced more than ever before." | | Uncategorized | |
| Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. | | Uncategorized | |
| Cures were developed for which there were no known diseases. (Commenting on Congress and the federal budget, 1981) | | Uncategorized | |
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| Democracy is less a system of government than it is a system to keep government limited, unintrusive; a system of constraints on power to keep politics and government secondary to the important things in life, the true sources of value found only in | | Democracy | |
| Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating. | | Uncategorized | |
| Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. | | Uncategorized | |
| does not look kindly to this cutting-edge-type litigation. | | Uncategorized | |
| Double, no triple, our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth. It is time that we recognized that ours was, in truth, a noble cause. | | Uncategorized | |
| Draft registration destroys the very values that our society is committed to defending. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| During my first press conference as president, in answer to a direct question, I pointed out that, as good Marxist-Leninists, the Soviet leaders have openly and publicly declared that the only morality they recognize is that which will further their cause, which is world revolution. | | Uncategorized | |
