11/09/1987
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"We will always take care of the poor and the helpless among us, because that's the kind of people we are and have always been."
"We knew that malaise for what it really was: Government, with its high taxes, excessive spending and overregulation, had thrown a wrench in the works of our free markets."
"The surest way to make American products more competitive is to spur innovation, enterprise, and productivity by cutting tax rates again."
"I have said very many times that those elected in office who sit there in our Capitol Hill building ... sometimes you have to make them feel the heat."