"We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won"
- Ronald Reagan
"I don't believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing."
"Yes, our country has its shortcomings, but there's no moral equivalency between democracy and totalitarianism…There's no moral equivalency between propaganda and the truth."
"Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?"
"You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans. "
"Just think how happy you'd be if you lost everything you have right now & then got it back."
"Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them."
"Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man."
"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so."
"You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual ..."