Ronald Reagan actually said...

"I have today signed into law H.R. 2838, which directs the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior to terminate certain contracts for the sale of timber from lands managed by the Forest Service and..."

"No, we were faced, when we came into office, with a Social Security system that in spite of the biggest tax increase in—single tax increase in history... was facing bankruptcy."

"There is a partnership between the public sector and the private sector, and it has a record."

"It was to avoid serious economic disruption to the industry and the resulting adverse impact to communities dependent upon a strong forest products industry that in July 1983 I authorized administrati..."