Norm Dicks Quotes

Government actually grew during the Reagan years.

Ronald Reagan felt very great regret about the deficits to which he contributed on his watch.

I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.

Over the course of two terms, President Reagan revolutionized the Republican Party and changed the political atmosphere in a way still being felt today.

I worked at the White House in the early Reagan administration at a time when the deficit rocket really started to take off.

He was the John the Baptist of the Reagan revolution.

Voodoo economics

The Reagan Revolution has had no second act.

Under Reagan's policies, inflation and nominal GNP growth shriveled much faster than predicted, throwing off government revenue estimates and resulting in budget deficits.

I was going to study business administration at Florida A&M, at the height of Reaganomics.

The idea behind Reaganomics is this: a rising tide lifts all yachts.

I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people, in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now.

After 2003, we lowered taxes across the board. And by 2004, revenue to the federal government grew. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan cut taxes dramatically. And by the end of the decade, revenue coming in the federal government had doubled.

When Grover Norquist launched his project to name anything and everything after Ronald Reagan, I humbly proposed that the deficit be re-christened 'the Reagan.'

I am a Reagan Republican.

When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement.

I wonder if these people today would think Reagan was a Reagan conservative.

It's time for conservative Americans to do what Reagan did.

If we have George W. Bush as president, we're going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.

I didn't wake up one day and say, you know, 'Supply-side economics doesn't make sense.'

I was first elected to public office when the Reagan revolution was in full swing. Maximizing freedom guided the policies of that era, with tremendous success.

Ronald Reagan was a dim hack who did horrible damage to almost everything he touched.

Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush.

President Obama has lowered taxes more than he has raised them, and they are today lower than they were in President Reagan's time. But you don't hear conservatives crowing about that.

This economy is not getting better and the president's policies are the reason.