Ronald Reagan quotes

“It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.”

— Ronald Reagan

“People do not make wars; governments do.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

“Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.”

— Ronald Reagan

“History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Ronald Reagan

“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.”

— Ronald Reagan

“They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.”

— Ronald Reagan

“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

“I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.”

— Ronald Reagan

“No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.”

— Ronald Reagan

“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

“Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.”

— Ronald Reagan

“Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.”

— Ronald Reagan

“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

“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

“The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.”

— Ronald Reagan

“Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.”

— Ronald Reagan