Ronald Reagan

We were never meant to be second-best.

I call upon my fellow citizens in both the public and private sectors to join in mutual efforts to pursue the long-term goals set forth during 1981.

The best view of that kind of government is in a rearview mirror as we leave it behind.

Israeli withdrawal from Sinai marks the beginning of a new era in the peaceful relations between Israel and Egypt.

The overwhelming majority of so-called private schools are church-supported—Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish.

For 6 months, inflation has been running at an annualized rate of only 3.2 percent.

There really is something magic about the marketplace when it's free to operate.

John Ashbrook was a man of courage and principle.

If it'll help ease the pain, let me remind you that in about 2 months, on July 1st, you'll start paying 10 percent less income tax on what you earn.

I owe it to my country and my fellow citizens to quit being a freeloader.

I valued John Ashbrook's friendship and will miss his wise counsel.

I was asking Congress to pass a bill allowing a tuition tax credit for families sending children to independent or parochial schools.

The $95 billion is tax owed on an estimated $450 billion in, for want of a better word, the underground economy.

We all kept our rendezvous with the Internal Revenue Service and anted up our income tax.

American dance companies have flourished, providing opportunities for many new and talented young artists.

Our laws represent the collective moral voice of a free society—a voice that articulates our shared beliefs about the rules of civilized behavior.

We ask all Americans to join with us in celebrating dance as a dynamic expression of the American spirit.

It's also rooted in the realization that regardless of who is victimized or the extent to which any one of us may personally be threatened, all of us have an interest in seeing that justice is done not only to the criminal but also for…

These creative men and women have made the United States the dance capital of the world.

They should not be treated as ciphers on a statistician's chart.

I'm signing today an Executive order establishing the President's Task Force on Victims of Crime.

Dance has become an integral part of America's cultural life.

The International Food Policy Research Institute, in which the United States participates, is hereby designated as a public international organization entitled to enjoy the privileges, exemptions, and immunities conferred by the…

You should be very proud—all of you—for what the National Wheelchair Athletic Association and what the Paralympics have done.

I'm honored to be the honorary national chairman of those VIIth Paralympic Games.