Ronald Reagan actually said...

Certainly we can afford a clean environment, but we must work for it in the most creative and effective way.

Message to the Congress Transmitting the Annual Report of the Council on Environmental Quality

07/20/1982

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The plain, simple truth is the Federal Government is spending too much.

I think that this is one of the best things that has come along in scores of years.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.

The men and women of NASA and the tasks that they so ably perform are essential to the nation.