Ronald Reagan actually said...

Then why don't they fix the blame, as I have tried to, where it belongs: on the Legislature, which has gone on now for more than 50 years defending deficit spending.

Context

Informal Exchange With Reporters on the Stock Market Decline and the Federal Deficit

10/19/1987

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