Ronald Reagan actually said...

I'm worried, as a matter of fact, that maybe too many people are going to get complacent and think their votes aren't needed.

Today the United States has stopped wringing its hands apologetically and once again begun to play its rightful role in the world with faith...

We are determined to reduce the deficit, and I firmly believe it can and will be done.

Those critics are the same people whose ruinous inflation fell so heavily on the poor, especially in 1979 and 1980.