Ronald Reagan actually said...

They like things just as they are, although they act as if the first chance they get they'll find a way out of the discipline of Gramm-Rudman-Hollings.

Context

Radio Address to the Nation on the Federal Budget and the Congressional Elections

10/14/1988

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