Ronald Reagan

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.

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

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

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.

My philosophy in life is this: 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.

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.

Russia also declared its independence. This was approved by the Supreme Soviet, and you know and remember that there was the Declaration on the Independence of Russia.

Of course there are differences, but they are not fundamental. Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.

I believe the measure of a man isn’t just the road he’s traveled; it’s the choices he’s made along the way.

Like most technology, the internet has mixed effects. It’s a neutral instrument.

A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production and the wage slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.

It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.

No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.

Stability of tax policy must be absolutely guaranteed for the next six years.

Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.

Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.

In line with international law, only the U.N. Security Council could sanction the use of force against a sovereign state. Any other pretext or method which might be used to justify the use of force against an independent sovereign state are inadmissible and can only be interpreted as an aggression.

Iraq is a small but very proud nation.

Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.

I think I’d be a better president because I was in combat.