Ronald Reagan

My commitment to cutting taxes and rebuilding our defenses is every bit as strong today as it was the day I took office.

I don't believe that I was sent to Washington to raise your taxes, and neither was the new majority in the United States Senate.

As much as I detest the idea of deficits, as President I must accept a large deficit if that is what it takes to buy peace for the rest of this century and beyond.

We're going to whittle at these deficits until we're down to government spending within its means.

We must not resign ourselves to life as a second-rate power, tempting aggression with our weakness.

A cutback in defense would be a cutback in our chance of peace and security.

As chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, he played an instrumental role in enacting last year's budget cuts.

We will not go back.

The rest of the country still believes in America and in tomorrow.

You're lucky that, among other things, he's a geologist.

We share the overriding philosophy that individual freedom, individual integrity, and individual ingenuity made us the greatest country the world has ever known.

The message is that Congress needs Jack Schmitt in the Senate.

We will make them right.

We cannot afford to compromise our national defense needs.

I am pleased to appoint William F. Sittmann as Special Assistant to the President.

Small businesses are a complex mixture of a wide variety of ownership types, sizes and locations.

The fundamental tenets of small business policy are thus quite clear.

Full utilization of the provisions of the Regulatory Flexibility Act will be a principal theme of our regulatory reform efforts over the next three years.

Small business will never be relegated to a back seat, not in this administration.

This Administration is committed to assuring unrestricted access for small business to all segments of our economy.

This Administration is dedicated to the systematic elimination of regulatory and procedural barriers which have unfairly precluded women from receiving equal treatment.

America needs small business formation and growth.

It didn't work in the past, and it won't work now.

I will direct the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service to include representatives of small business in advisory groups.

It's time for you and me and the American people to stand together and to tell the Congress, 'No, you may not touch our tax cut.'