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A baby is an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.
A people free to choose will always choose peace.
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
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.
All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
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.
Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.
But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
Double, no triple, our troubles and we’d still be better off than any other people on earth. It is time that we recognized that ours was, in truth, a noble cause.
Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.
Facts are stubborn things.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
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, subsidise it.
Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
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.
I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.
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.
I couldn’t help but say to Mr. Gorbachev just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. We’d find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here
I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I’m in a cabinet meeting.
I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.
I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I’m not going to deny that you don’t now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.
I’m not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.
I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‘fat cat’ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‘public-spirited philanthropist’.
I’ve often said there’s nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.
If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn’t be here. It’d still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.
If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.
If you’ve seen one redwood, you’ve seen them all.
In Israel, free men and women are every day demonstrating the power of courage and faith. Back in 1948 when Israel was founded, pundits claimed the new country could never survive. Today, no one questions that. Israel is a land of stability and democracy i
Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
It’s silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.
It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.
Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!
No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act.
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.
Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.
Status quo, you know, is Latin for ‘the mess we’re in’.
Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
The 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.
The neutron warhead is a defensive weapon designed to offset the great superiority that the Soviet Union has on the western front against the NATO nations.
The taxpayer – that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.
The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.
The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas – a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.
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.
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world’s strongest economy.
To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.
Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
Trust, but verify.
Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.
We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.
We have so many people who can’t see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!
We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.
We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
Well, I learned a lot – I went down to Latin America to find out from them and their views. You’d be surprised. They’re all individual countries.
Well, I learned a lot… I went down to Latin America to find out from them and (learn) their views. You’d be surprised. They’re all individual countries.
What makes him think a middle aged actor [Clint Eastwood], who’s played with a chimp, could have a future in politics?
What makes him think a middle aged actor, who’s played with a chimp, could have a future in politics?
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.
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness.
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.
그들은 세계가 단순한 대답들로 해결하기엔 너무 복잡해졌다고 말한다. 그들은 틀렸다.
나를 따르는 미국시민여러분, 저는 방금 영원히 러시아를 불법으로 하는 법률에 서명했다는 것을 알리게 되어 기쁩니다. 폭격은 5분 후에 시작합니다.
난 내가 더이상 정부에 있지 않다는것을 알아요. 사실은 그만둔것이죠.
난 점심식사때 절대로 커피를 마시지 않는다. 난 그것이 오후내내 나를 깨워 놓는다는것을 알아냈다.
내 생애 겪었던 네번의 전쟁중에, 미국이 너무 강해서 일어난 것은 하나도 없다.
내가 모든 미국인들처럼 과거로부터 영감을 얻는 동안, 나는 미래를 위해 산다.
네게 보이는것을 본다는걸 두려워 하지 말아라.
당신은 당신을 따르는 사람들의 성격을 그들이 젤리과자를 어떻게 먹는지 보면 알수 있다.
대학을 간 것은 나에게 4년동안 미식축구를 더 할 수 있는 기회를 제공했다.
모든 사람들에게 닥치는 문제들에 대한 해답은 성서 안에 써있다.
문제는 사람들에게 세금을 너무 조금 붙인다는것이 아니라, 문제는 정부가 너무 돈을 많이 쓴다는 것이다.
미국은 세계 제 3차대전을 일으킬만한 여지가 있다.
미국의 가장 멋진 변화들은 저녁식사의 테이블에서 시작한다.
불경기란 당신의 이웃이 직장을 잃을때 쓰는 말이고, 불황기란 당신이 당신의 직장을 잃을때 나오는 말이다.
사람들은 전쟁을 일으키지 않는다; 정부가 일으키는 것일뿐.
사람들의 지능, 상상, 그리고 그 경이에는 한도가 없기때문에 그것들의 성장에 대한 제한 또한 존재하지 않는다.
세상의 어느 어머니도 영토의 이득을 위해, 경제의 이점을 위해, 또 사상을 위해서 자신의 아들들을 기꺼이 희생할 사람은 없다.
쉬운 정답은 없지만 간단한 정답은 있다. 우리는 도덕적으로 옳다고 생각하는것을 할 용기가 있어야만한다.
스테이터스 쿠오, 이 말 아시죠? 라틴어로 “우리가 빠져있는 곤경”
앞으로 나에게 남은 시간 모두는 다 저 위에계신 큰 분의 것이다.
역사는 가르친다. 전쟁은 정부가 침략의 댓가가 매우 시시할것이라고 믿을떄 일어나는 것이라고.
영어란 언어에서 가장 무섭고 겁나는 말: 저는 정부에서 당신을 돕기위해 온 사람입니다.
오늘 우리들은 우리들이 해야만 했던 일을 했다. 그들은 미국이 무저항일 거라고 믿었다. 그들의 믿음은 잘못된 것이였다.
우리 자신에게 물어보자 : “우리는 우리자신이 어떤 종류의 사람이라고 생각하는가?”
우리가 모두를 도울 수는 없지만, 모두는 누군가를 도울 수 있어요.
우리는 언제나 기억할것입니다. 우리는 언제나 자랑스러워 할 것입니다. 우리는 언제나 준비 되어 있을것이고, 그래서 우리는 언제나 자유로울 것입니다.
우리는 진주만 전쟁후에 어느때부터 큰 위험에 처해있다. 우리의 군은 이 나라를 절대 방어할 수 있는 능력이 없다.
이 나라에서 식량이 부족에서 아직도 굶고 있는 사람이 있다는것은 정말 믿기 어려운 일이다.
인생이란 웅장하고, 달콤한 하나의 음악이다. 이제 그 음악을 시작해라.
정부는 문제들을 풀어 나가지 않고, 그것들을 장려한다.
정부의 첫번째 의무는 사람들을 보호하는 것이지, 그들의 생명을 유지시키는 것이 아니다.
정치란 그렇게 나쁜 직업은 아니다. 성공을 거둔다면 많은 보상이 기다리고 있으며, 설혹 실패한다고 해도 책 한 권은 족히 쓸 수 있으니 말이다
평화는 대립의 결여가 아니다. 그것은 존재하는 대립들을 얼마나 평화롭게 다룰 수 있는지에 대한 능력이다.
한 대통령이 어떻게 동시에 배우이지 않을수 있는가?