Ronald Reagan Quotes

It was Ronald Reagan who used to say that the 10 most frightening words in the English language are, "I'm from the federal government, and I'm here to help."

From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.

The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.

Mr. Obama is proud of his belief that government knows best. When he told the world that individuals were not totally responsible for their personal success, that government has a major role in it, many Americans were taken aback. But Barack Obama sincerely believes that.

I can describe to you the taste of government cheese.

People like getting what they think is free stuff from government.

The public in many countries is understandably concerned by the commitment of substantial government resources to aid the financial industry when other industries receive little or no assistance. This disparate treatment, unappealing as it is, appears unavoidable.

Then I received support from the Government to compete for my country, and to represent Cuba in competition.

There is no reason why one should believe you should leave out politicians in cricket or any sport for that matter. There are ways and means in which government can assist in the management and development of players.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government shall do everything and the idea that government shall do nothing.

Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them — take social security, disaster relief, public works projects, for example.

People dislike government spending in the abstract, but the like government spending when they see the benefit.

That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective.

Liberals don't believe in the ultimate concept of self-reliance, which is why they look to the government for stability.

The history of Montana has been of the government giving land grants to people that could not possibly turn it into decent farms. And that's destroying their lives. So they don't see the government as something that's out there to help them.

The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for allcommanders.

Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See, if it wasn't for us, you couldn't walk.'

Ronald Reagan came from show business. His idea of how the government should help the homeless was like your agent. "We'll try to get you work. But don't bug us about it."

There are myriad government programs out there to help small businesses. Few people use them effectively. The maze of information makes it difficult for any one person to understand it all, which often leads politicians, and citizens, too, to call for more programs. We don't need more government programs; we just need a better way to access them.

How much further beyond basic research the role of the government should be, you could have a really good debate about it. Almost nobody would say it's zero. But that's where at least we need the private sector to play a big role.

You can't go by what the governments say or do. It's not the governments. It's on the street where there's more hatred of Americans in Britain than in France.

It is not the policy of the government in America to give aid to works of any kind. They let things take their natural course without help or impediment, which is generally the best policy.

We were poor when I was young but the difference was that the government didn't come around telling you you were poor.

The benefits and $174,000 per year salary that we get, we earn. It's not elaborate, it's just a bunch of poppycock that a lot of people have spread around trying to get us to hate our own government and our government representatives.