Ronald Reagan actually said...

Those high taxes had fueled a rate of increase in government spending that reached 17 percent in 1980 alone.

Radio Address to the Nation on the Program for Economic Recovery

04/02/1982

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We need deeds, not more words.

There is no alternative to American leadership.

It is with sincere regret that today I must disapprove and return H.R. 3, the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988.

The legislation, the Augustus F. Hawkins-Robert T. Stafford Elementary and Secondary School Improvement Amendments of 1988, was signed into ...