Ronald Reagan actually said...

I think that there is a certain level as to the percentage of gross national product that government takes for itself.

Interview With Henry Brandon of the London Sunday Times and News Service on Domestic and Foreign Policy Issues

03/17/1983

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I am deeply honored that you chose me for this high position.

America could greet the future confident that the monster of deficit spending was locked away forever in its cage.

That's just not acceptable.

It's time once and for all to end deficit spending.