Top 1200 President Ronald Reagan Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Right now, if there's a gender gap problem, it's not Ronald Reagan with women; it's with Walter Mondale with men.

I have nothing to say to him [Ronald Reagan], because he is mad. He is foolish. He is an Israeli dog.

By the way, my tax cut is the biggest since Ronald Reagan. I'm very proud of it.

Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan each suffered through his second four years. FDR was checkmated by Congress and the Supreme Court. Ike was dogged by Sputnik and reckless charges that the United States suffered from a Missile Gap. Reagan had to wend his way through Iran-Contra.

I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness.

Reagan is the subject of ongoing political debate, and a lot of liberals don't want to take Reagan any more seriously than they did when he was president. I understand why they don't, but they should.

The real estate lobby has prominent allies in both parties. After the last major overhaul of the tax code, in 1986 - under a Republican president, Ronald Reagan, a Republican Senate and a Democratic House - it was a Democrat, Bill Clinton, who signed legislation that restored lost real estate tax breaks seven years later.

Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon.

When you tax capital gains income, you don't help the economy, you hurt the economy, which is why President Kennedy, President Reagan, President Clinton and President Bush all believed we should have a lower rate for capital gains.

I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

I'd be surprised if Ronald Reagan doesn't run again. To us it's a second term. To him it's a double feature.

Ronald Reagan would have a hard time getting elected as a Republican today.

You have got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because when you quote him accurately it is called mudslinging.

[Ronald] Reagan bitterly hated unions and wanted them destroyed. This began with the air controllers' strike and went on from there.

News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.

Ronald Reagan was an excellent leader of our nation during challenging times at home and abroad.

Ronald Reagan and Ron Paul had a message that was clear, it was principled, and it inspired. It was a vision for a future.

Everything is about looking for happiness and God. That was a sentiment shared by my dear friend Ronald Reagan.

The fact that a TV star can become president should be old news since [Ronald] Reagan, and old news since the Nixon-Kennedy debates - which the famous story, whether or not you agree, is that if you listened on the radio, Nixon won; if you listened on TV, Kennedy won.

He [Tim Matheson] is such a - he's not like [Ronald] Reagan - but he's so commanding of respect but he's also so sweet.

Reagan said that government is not the solution to our problems, government is the problem. And he was going to dismantle that government. Well, long story short, he failed to do that. He built up the military to a much greater status, more people in it, and actually more employees after the end of the Reagan administration. And, to achieve his objectives, he did some of the very same things that Trump is doing to achieve his. What Ronald Reagan really wanted to dismantle was the welfare state. And he had limited success in doing that.

Ronald Reagan is not a typical politician because he doesn't know how to lie, cheat, and steal. He's always had an agent for that.

His smile was the nightmare in my back pocket.(Speaking about Ronald Reagan)

When Ronald Reagan's career in show business came to an end, he was hired to impersonate, first, a California governor and then an American president who would reduce taxes for his employers, the Southern and Western New Rich, much of whose money came from the defence industries. There is nothing unusual about this arrangement. All recent presidents have had their price-tags.

I helped Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp develop supply-side economics.

I actually have several busts of Ronald Reagan that have been presented to me.

Now an American president like [Ronald] Reagan wouldn't have a meeting, wouldn't have a summit. He'd give 'em a warning and then - or [Gerge W.] Bush would give 'em a warning and then - whatever would happen. Because you don't allow the murder of American citizens. You just don't permit it.

Ronald Reagan makes me proud to be an American. His intelligence, capability, and Christian brotherhood are so inspiring and his way of leadership is just superb. I consider myself lucky to have been his leading lady in "The Bad Man" and a short subject reel and as a nation all together we are beyond fortunate to have the leadership of such fine people as the Reagan's.

His presidency ended more than a decade ago, but politicians, Democrat and Republican, still talk about Ronald Reagan. Al Gore has an ad noting that in Congress he opposed the Reagan budget cuts. He says that because Bill Bradley was one of 36 Democratic Senators who voted for the cuts. Gore doesn’t point out that Bradley also voted against the popular Reagan tax cuts and that it was the tax cuts that piled up those enormous deficits, a snowballing national debt.

The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy.

I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... an Arctic region covered with ice.

Ronald Reagan believes in the free market like some people believe in unicorns.

In 1980, a nation in need of change selected Ronald Reagan to restore the shine to a tarnished America.

Ronald Reagan knew who he was. Barack Obama is still working through that equation politically.

Ronald Reagan, whatever his pros and cons were, was a public servant in the end.

We all should be concerned if our kids don't know who Sandra Day O'Connor, John Adams, and Ronald Reagan are.

I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... a large Arctic region covered with ice.

[Ronald]Reagan and[George W.] Bush were far more radical than other presidents.

Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.

I believe in Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment, thou shall not speak unfavorably of another Republican.

With Ed Wood, it was this sort of blending of Ronald Reagan, the Tin Man from 'The Wizard of Oz,' and Casey Kasem.

I think that Ronald Reagan had it right, being against abortion except in certain limited, defined circumstances.

Ronald Reagan said that he sought a "Star Wars" defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.

It is easy for Americans to forget a simple fact that is very clear to the people around the world that yearn to live in this country: America is the best country in the entire damn world! It deserves to be made great again, because America is, in the words of President Ronald Reagan, 'the last best hope of mankind.'

It may be hard to remember how difficult it was for people to talk about HIV/AIDS back in the 1980's and because of both Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan - in particular Mrs Reagan - we started a national conversation, when before nobody would talk about it, nobody wanted to do anything about it. Something that I really appreciate was her very effective but low-key advocacy, but it penetrated the public conscience, and people began to say "hey we have to do something about this too.

Ronald Reagan said something really interesting about nuclear proliferation back in the 1980s. He said the problem with nuclear proliferation is some fool or maniac could trigger a catastrophic event and I think that Donald Trump is exactly who governor Reagan warned about.

The GOP was once the party of William F. Buckley Jr., Ronald Reagan, and John McCain.

I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.

My father was raised a union Democrat. He cast his first ballot for a Republican in 1980 for Ronald Reagan.

The United States had eight years of Barack Obama. He made it incredibly clear that he was a right-wing Democrat. He cited Ronald Reagan lovingly in every stump speech for the last six months of the presidential 2008 campaign. And he made it clear that he was going to be a business-friendly Democratic president, and that he was not going to rock the neoliberal boat. And he didn't.

You can't accuse the creator of The Boondocks, ... Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil and the government is lying about 9/11.

The [Ronald] Reagan administration told the business world that they were not going to enforce the labor laws.

What is with this campy fixation on all things Ronald Reagan? They talk about him the way gay people talk about Barbra Streisand. I think they want him on a stamp so they can lick his ass. I think they wanted to name airports after him so they can say, "I'm coming into Reagan!"

Ronald Reagan was a dim hack who did horrible damage to almost everything he touched.

Ronald Reagan felt very great regret about the deficits to which he contributed on his watch.

As a seven-year-old, I had definite opinions on Ronald Reagan.

I am involved with politics today because of the inspiration I received from Ronald Reagan.

With Ronald Reagan in the White House, somebody had to look out for those who were not so fortunate. That's where I came in.

The highlight of my career was being at the inaugural gala of Ronald Reagan, and I owe that to Mr. Sinatra.

It is worth emphasizing that Iran released our hostages in 1981 the day Ronald Reagan was sworn into office.