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You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.

- Ronald Reagan

Medical, About, Downturn, Michael

Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.

- Ronald Reagan

Stems, Enforcing, Sources, Standards

Let us ask ourselves, 'What kind of people do we think we are?' And let us answer, 'Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.'

- Ronald Reagan

Think, Kind, Remain, Worthy

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

- Ronald Reagan

Mind, Spirit, Constraints, Barriers

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

- Ronald Reagan

Peace, Absence, Means, Handle

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

- Ronald Reagan

Plant, Year, Waste, Nuclear Power

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

- Ronald Reagan

Will, Men And Women, Our, Formidable

What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

- Ronald Reagan

Country, Maybe, Had, Homeless

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

- Ronald Reagan

Politics, Hit, Violent, Deadly

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

- Ronald Reagan

Country, World Peace, Obsolete

The objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy - the system of a free press, unions, political parties, universities - which allows a people to choose their own way to develop their own culture, to reconcile their own differences through peaceful means.

- Ronald Reagan

Through, Political Parties, Propose

Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.

- Ronald Reagan

Some, Made, Lives, Marines

We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.

- Ronald Reagan

Parking, Country, Still, Vietnam

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

- Ronald Reagan

Courage, Know, Answers, Morally

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

- Ronald Reagan

Big, Other, Like, Appetite

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

- Ronald Reagan

Worrying, Stopped, Works, Jefferson

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

- Ronald Reagan

Money, Lose, His, Loses

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

- Ronald Reagan

Work, Taxpayer, Works, Federal

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

- Ronald Reagan

Through, Ten Commandments, Moses

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

- Ronald Reagan

Politics, Been, Profession, Striking

Latinos are Republican. They just don't know it yet.

- Ronald Reagan

Republican, Know, Just, Latinos

It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.

- Ronald Reagan

Law, Laws, May, No Law

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

- Ronald Reagan

Know, Quo, Latin, Status Quo

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

Tell, Communist, Reads, Understands

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

- Ronald Reagan

Play, World, Abroad, Innocents

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

- Ronald Reagan

Freedom, Law, Vibrant, Prospers

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

- Ronald Reagan

College, Chance, Play, Play Football

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

- Ronald Reagan

Come, Might, Rule, Budget

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

- Ronald Reagan

Today, Had, Counted, Passive

We don't hide our space program. We don't keep secrets and cover things up. We do it all up front and in public. That's the way freedom is, and we wouldn't change it for a minute.

- Ronald Reagan

Change, Program, Our, Space Program

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