Ronald Reagan actually said...

"This bill would not have affected anyone who leaves office with my Administration, but my concern is to secure good government for our country's future."

"It is excessive and unjustifiable also to insist... that former officials not represent any client before any senior Executive official wherever located and no matter how unrelated to the former offic..."

"We have done our best, and we pray it has been enough."

"We owe all we have to our forebears who built our land and our government and gave it to us as a sacred bequest."