Ronald Reagan

I intend to nominate Clarence Thomas to be a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

We must uncompromisingly represent the interests of our countries, yet be ever mindful that by our actions, we are determining the future of mankind.

In the conduct of your duties, be diligent; in the search for peace, be bold.

May mankind profit by what we do.

Nancy and I will always have a warm place in our hearts for you, Joe, and we hope that you will honor us with your presence in our house many times in the years ahead.

I am convinced that our policies, now that they are in place, are the appropriate response to our current difficulties.

Federal Government action should be reserved for those needed functions that only the national government can undertake.

Well, tonight nobody loses.

Reversing the trends of the past is not an easy task.

I can't play the piano, and my food taster is home sick—something he ate no doubt.

It is with deepest personal regret that I accept your resignation as Assistant to the President.

I wish the answers at my press conferences were that simple.

I'm sure you all remember how he answered that inquisitive lady who said she had a bet that she could get more than three words out of him.

I now pronounce you president of the National Press Club.

No one who has known you through these days will forget your colorful character—the laughter, the verve, the spirit—but those who know you best will treasure even more those inner qualities of loyalty and character that are so much a part…

I was second choice for this job.

To spur further business investment and productivity growth, the new tax law provides faster write-offs for capital investment.

The private sector works best when the Federal Government intervenes least.

After 74 years, it's about time.

We're reducing the size and cost of government to bring the annual increase in cost to less than the increase in tax revenues.

The American people are tired of theatrics; they want action.

I am pleased to nominate Robert Thaddeus Grey, Jr., to be Deputy Director of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.

We will not turn our backs on those who seek to gain or secure their liberty.

We've lived too long by the maxims of past decades, lost in a jungle of government bureaucracy.

If we lose this way of ours, this thing we call freedom, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening.