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Ronald Reagan: “Balancing the budget is a little like protecting your virtue: You just have to learn to say 'no.'”

On the recordSeptember 8, 1982
Balancing the budget is a little like protecting your virtue: You just have to learn to say 'no.'
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at Kansas State University at the Alfred M. Landon Lecture Series on Public Issues

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