Quotes from Ronald Reagan

Information is the oxygen of the modern age.

. . . I hope that when you're my age, you'll be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom, we lived lives that were a statement, not an apology.

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

Our moral imperative is to work with all our powers for that day when the children of the world grow up without the fear of nuclear war.

You know economists; they're the sort of people who see something works in practice and wonder if it would work in theory.

I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.

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

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

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.

Where there's liberty, art succeeds.

I remain California-bound

I usually never walk by a microphone.

Trust, but verify.

Work and family are at the center of our lives, the foundation of our dignity as a free people.

The bill's a textbook example of special interest pork barrel politics at work, and I have no choice but to veto it.

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

Our country and state have a special obligation to work toward the stabilization of our own population so as to credibly lead other parts of the world toward population stabilization.

Meaningful work, not welfare, is every American's hope, and we have a continuing responsibility to make those hopes a lasting reality.

I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?

You can't tax business. Business doesn't pay taxes. It collects taxes.

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

They say hard work never hurt anybody but I figure why take the chance.

When you see all of the smoke billowing up from the Democrats, ladies and gentlemen, I'd follow the advice of their nominee: Don't Inhale .

It's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons. The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.