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Ronald Reagan Quotes - Page 36

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How could an actor become president?

How could an actor become president?

President, Actors

The war in vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to some extent. It's been said that these memorials reflect a hunger for healing.

War, Philosophical, Healing

This is the real task before us: to reassert our commitment as a nation to a law higher than our own, to renew our spiritual strength. Only by building a wall of such spiritual resolve can we, as a free people, hope to protect our own heritage and make it someday the birthright of all men.

Spiritual, Wall, Real

Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

Too often, people forget the basic fact of life: all those good things we enjoy come from the ache in [our] backs and the willingness to shoulder great personals risks.

People, Risk, Facts

Why should the government subsidize intellectual curiosity?

Government, Intellectual, Curiosity

Jesse Helms wants me to move to the right, Lowell Weiker wants me to move to the left, and Teddy Kennedy wants me to move back to California.

Moving, California, Want

You can never underestimate the ability of the Democrats to wet their finger and hold it in the wind.

Wind, Underestimate, Fingers

Wearing love beads and touting our sincerity will not make this a safer world.

Love Is, World, Sincerity

It's just too bad we can't have an epidemic of botulism.

Epidemics

It is no coincidence that when the thugs tried to wrest control over Grenada, there were 30 Soviet advisors and hundreds of Cuban military and paramilitary forces on the island.

Military, War, Thug

United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1983). “Ronald Reagan”

It ought to be remembered by all [that] the Games more than 2,000 years ago started as a means of bringing peace between the Greek city-states. And in those days, even if a war was going on, they called off the war in order to hold the Games. I wish we were still as civilized.

Peace, War, Mean

United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

When PLO sniper fire is followed by 14 hours of Israeli bombardment, that's stretching the definition of defensive action too far.

Peace, War, Fire

America has always been greatest when we dared to be great. We can reach for greatness again. We can follow our dreams to distant stars, living and working in space for peaceful, economic, and scientific gain. Tonight, I am directing NASA to develop a permanently manned space station, and to do it within a decade.

Dream, Stars, Greatness

United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

Like the genocide of the Armenians before it, and the genocide of the Cambodians which followed it ... the lessons of the Holocaust must never be forgotten.

Holocaust, Armenia, Lessons

Reagan, Ronald (1982). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981”, p.376, Best Books on

Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating.

Flower, Government, Democracy

Address to British Parliament, delivered 8 June 1982, Royal Gallery at the Palace of Westminster, London

America's view of apartheid is simple and straightforward: We believe it is wrong. We condemn it. And we are united in hoping for the day when apartheid will be no more.

Believe, Simple, America

United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1988). “Ronald Reagan”

If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now.

America, Government, Sea

Reagan, Ronald (1988). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1986”, p.297, Best Books on

I have come to the conclusion that the 22nd Amendment [limiting the presidency to two terms] was a mistake. Shouldn't the people have the right to vote for someone as many times as they want to vote for him?

Mistake, Two, Government

I don't have too much time for fiction.

Government, Fiction, Politics

You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard.

Government, Generations, Actors

You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday's impossibilities the commonplace realities of today.

Cutting, Science, Technology

United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

State problems should involve state solutions.

Success, Law, Problem

The criminal element now calculates that crime really does pay.

Success, Law, Criminals

United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

You get a little stir crazy during the week.

Life, Family, Success

Seventy-five years ago I was born in Tampico, Illinois, in a little flat above the bank building. We didn't have any other contact with the bank than that.

Life, Family, Success

Born: February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004
Occupation: 40th U.S. President

Quotes: 1096

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