When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us.

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

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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.

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

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Facts are stupid things.

—Ronald Reagan

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

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What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.

—Richard M. Nixon

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

—P. J. O'Rourke

You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

—John Kenneth Galbraith

Before my term has ended, we shall have to test anew whether a nation organized and governed such as ours can endure. The outcome is by no means certain.

—John F. Kennedy

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

—James Madison

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