Ronald Reagan actually said...

"We're determined to enable the American people to gain control of the runaway government which threatens our economic vitality."

"I don't believe it is a valid parallel [to Vietnam]."

"I have expressed in the strongest terms my outrage regarding this crisis."

"By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution of the United States of America, and in order to establish an advisory committee on the domestic and international economic policy of the..."