Ronald Reagan actually said...

We dare not try to spend, tax, and borrow our way back to prosperity, because that would push America right back into the swamp where we found ourselves in 1980.

Context

Remarks at a Dinner Honoring the Republican Majority in the Senate

12/08/1982

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