Ronald Reagan actually said...

I have long believed that our Nation's budget must be balanced.

Message to the Congress Transmitting the Annual Economic Report of the President

02/01/1984

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These proposals are part of a government-wide freeze aimed at reducing the Federal deficit.

Our need to constrain the growth of our national spending for health care in the interests of a healthy and stable economy is urgent.

Past Federal policy has been a part of the problem.

I have the utmost confidence in John Davis Lodge.