Ronald Reagan actually said...

"Under the circumstances, I consider this action a sound economic measure and a victory for the American taxpayer over runaway Federal spending."

"People understand that making this government live within its means will ultimately do more to bring down interest rates and put our unemployed back to work than anything else we could do."

"Throughout the Baltic States, Eastern Europe and Asia, now in Africa and Latin America, nation after nation has fallen prey to an ideology that seeks to stifle all that's good about the human spirit."

"Well, you know, our administration has the strange idea that you all weren't born just to help government grow fatter."