Ronald Reagan Political Quotations

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

I don't want to do a TV series. It's no fun working from dawn to sunset every day. An occasional movie would be fine, and then I'll see what might develop on the political front.

I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales.

For too long, too many people dependent on Social Security have been cruelly frightened by individuals seeking political gain through demagoguery and outright falsehood, and this must stop.

There are simple answers to the nation's problems, but not easy ones.

We need more Democrats in the Senate -Like Custer needed more arrows.

To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors.

The United Sates has much to offer the third world war.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

The difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks.

Baseball is our national pastime, that is if you discount political campaigning.

We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.

I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience.

In a world wracked by hatred, economic crisis, and political tension, America remains mankind's best hope.

A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist.

If you're explaining, you're losing.

Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be political.