Ronald Reagan actually said...

Throwing taxpayers' money at a problem, sitting back with smug looks of self-congratulation, has been tried, and it didn't work.

Remarks on Signing the National Drug Abuse Education Week Proclamation

10/31/1983

More Ronald Reagan Quotes

Our aim is to prevent, not to provoke, wider conflict, to save the many lives that further conflict would cost us.

The administration supports the laudable objectives of the bill.

The administration opposes enactment of H.R. 1939.

Our task today is simple and sad: to remember, to pay tribute to those we loved.