He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

—Ronald Reagan

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Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. A member of the Republican Party, he became an important figure in the American conservative movement. The period encompassing his...

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I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

—Ronald Reagan

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

—Ronald Reagan

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Facts are stupid things.

—Ronald Reagan

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

—Ronald Reagan

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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.

—Ronald Reagan

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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

—Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

—John Gunther

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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

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