Ronald Reagan

I believe the United States should be a party to the Regulations from the outset.

This large and cost-effective acquisition program will be accomplished through a combination of direct cash purchase and exchange with excess materials from our stockpile.

This represents neither fair compromise nor responsible budget policy.

I can give assurance that social security and most other benefit checks will be paid on schedule.

Of course, we now must come back and do the work all over again in the Congress on a bill that can be signed.

I don't think the people should take less than that.

I think it's time to choose a different road and to bring spending relief and tax relief for our overburdened citizens.

The practice of loading the budget with unnecessary spending—and then waiting until after the eleventh hour to pass a Continuing Resolution on the assumption that it was safe from a Presidential veto—has gone on much too long.

By refusing to make even this small saving to protect the American people against over-spending, the Congress has paved the way for higher interest rates and inflation.

I have chosen the latter.

But I'm glad for this extension so that no one's holidays were disrupted.

I would have called, not only just being late now, but, earlier, but I had a little problem there.

I must urge the Congress to act promptly and responsibly.

We in this country have a cultural record to be proud of.

Through private and voluntary contributions, the American people maintain more orchestras, more opera, more ballet, more nonprofit theater, more libraries and other cultural activities than all the rest of the world put together.

The leadership of men like Madison gave shape to a nation that would become the greatest the world has ever seen.

We the people—and that is still the most powerful phrase—created government for our own convenience.

Those principles must be reaffirmed by every generation of Americans, for freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

Rights given to government were taken from the people.

Let it be said of this generation of Americans that when we pass the torch of freedom onto the new generation, it was burning as brightly as when it was handed to us.

But you know that it would be—there's no way that you can comment now while this is still evidently under review.

We must promote the economic and social development of the hemisphere through international cooperation.

Yes, and then it was investigated. And it was reported that everything was fine.

We agreed that efforts must be made to strengthen democracy, liberty, and pluralism against extremism and totalitarianism.

I remember one day I was carving, and I thought they hadn't cooked it very well, because there was a lot of blood appearing.