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Ronald Reagan: “That guiding thought is, when we start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' we've been here too long.”

On the recordDecember 13, 1985
That guiding thought is, when we start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' we've been here too long.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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Remarks at a Dinner for the Board of Governors of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation

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