Ronald Reagan

The political status of free association is distinguishable both from independence and from an extension of United States sovereignty; under it, plenary defense rights and responsibilities would remain vested in the United States.

Our government must return to the tradition of living within our means and must do it now.

You have the expertise to fill it.

It shows that voluntarism can work.

We intend to keep our promise to restore social security's fiscal integrity.

You certainly haven't retired in that regard.

I can't help but wonder if the time hasn't come to take reapportionment out of politics and have it done by a blue ribbon citizen committee.

Personal involvement-it makes this a better place to live.

The reapportionment plan as it now stands effectively disenfranchises large numbers of California voters.

I'm signing petitions today that will place the issue of reapportionment before the voters of California.

Protecting the integrity of our electoral system and the voting franchise, I think, is of concern to all Americans.

You are individually doing your part, making your contribution to art, and that's the kind of effort that's in keeping with the spirit that we're trying to recapture in these days.

This gallery is a tribute to something that I look forward to seeing improve in our country, and that is private initiative.

This truly is a happy and historic day for America.

She believes, as she said in her Senate testimony, that a judge is on the bench to interpret the law, not to make it.

The one with the least overhead is the private effort; next is the community or local effort if it is a public effort, but the highest of all is the Federal Government.

Judge O'Connor's judicial philosophy is one of restraint.

The possibilities are limitless for what we can take over that government has once been doing.

We are going to make it a major project.

Judge O'Connor is, as I have come to know personally, a very warm and brilliant woman who has had an outstanding career in Arizona.

We need to pick your brains very much.

You can give a hungry man a fish and he'll be hungry tomorrow, or you can teach him to fish and he'll never be hungry again.

Some individual sees a problem... they walk across the street to a friend or a neighbor and they tell them of the problem, and they talk about it.

Judge O'Connor's confirmation symbolizes the richness of opportunity that still abides in America.

We have drifted, as a people, too far away from the voluntarism that so characterized our country for so many years.