Political Quotes

“Ronald Reagan's Presidency brought a fresh breath of renewed freedom to this country shackled by regulation, inflation, high interest rates, and higher taxes at the time of his first inauguration. It was the policies of Ronald Reagan which brought about the greatest national upset of the century--the collapse of the Soviet Union. Ronald Reagan toppled the reign of an evil empire which its own citizens sought but who were helpless to free themselves from--the dictatorship which Lenin and Stalin had set upon them. He kept his faith in America. Ronald Reagan gave this country its biggest tax cut in the first year of his presidency. The Reagan cut stimulated the dynamic growth of the decade that followed, an explosion which created 20 million jobs. Ronald Reagan adhered faithfully to traditional American family values. He was adamant against abortion. It was Ronald Reagan who touched off the debate on free trade. His leadership in this area brought about our first free-trade agreement with Canada. The NAFTA pact followed. I personally have been a Ronald Reagan supporter for over a quarter of a century. I battled in vain to gain him the Republican nomination for President in 1968 in Miami Beach, and in 1976 in Kansas City. When I withdrew from the presidential campaign in 1980, I threw all my support behind him. Ronald Reagan--a native of my own home State of Illinois--was ever the optimist who recognized that the United States still represents the world's best hope.”