Ronald Reagan Quotes

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.

I often quote Ronald Reagan, who is pretty close to my favorite President ever, I will have to say that, but one of my favorite remarks he ever made was that when you look at Federal programs, there is nothing so close to eternal life on Earth as a Federal Government program.

We need a Federal government that does what the government needs to do and stops doing what the government ought not to be doing.

While many of Mr. Obama's ideas warrant skepticism, conservative opposition to any expanded role for government is a mistake.

Most Americans recognize that whatever the government program is, no matter how essential it is, it's waste.

I saw what government programs were and how they were executed. In some cases, they were executed beautifully, but in others, there was tremendous waste.

I think governments can't do much.

Big government doesn't work! It just doesn't work!

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Governments have nothing. They can't create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it

There is no evidence that government under Republicans will shrink. It's simply a question of what the government will do and who will benefit.

Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem. […] Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it. […] The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

If people won't spend any money, the government has this moral obligation to do it.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.

President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.

Conservatives want smaller government. They want to focus on market-based solutions wherever one can. They want to have as little regulation as possible. But in general, they recognize that government must play an important role for a society to operate.

Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.

The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.

It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census.

While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective, I also can see the good that government does.

Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done.

I believe the only measure of government response shouldn't be how much we spend on a situation, but rather how well we spend.