Ronald Reagan actually said...

The overall percentage of the adjustment in the rates of pay under the General Schedule will be a 4.8 percent increase.

Message to the Congress Transmitting an Alternative Plan for Federal Civilian Pay Increases

08/30/1981

More Ronald Reagan Quotes

I have approved the agreement and authorized its execution.

We are a government of and by the people, not the other way around.

I am dead set against raising taxes to do it.

This is the greatest country in the world. And it does offer opportunity to those who have the guts to get in there and fight for it.