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Don't say I was tough. I was strong. I had to be, because Ronnie liked everybody and sometimes didn't see - or refused to see - what the people around him were really up to. But everything I did, I did for Ronnie. I did for love.


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RONALD REAGAN Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself ...
RONALD REAGAN Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a ve...
RONALD REAGAN No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage ...
RONALD REAGAN We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be...
RONALD REAGAN We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit ov...
RONALD REAGAN Limits exist only in the mind
RONALD REAGAN Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If ...
RONALD REAGAN You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.
RONALD REAGAN The best minds in government? If any were, business would hire them away.
RONALD REAGAN Some spend their entire lives wondering if they have made a difference in this world. The Marines do...
RONALD REAGAN Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a ver...
RONALD REAGAN A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort and remembered with...
RONALD REAGAN I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of...
MAUREEN REAGAN The taxpayer -- that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civ...
RONALD REAGAN Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver 5 minutes longer.
RONALD REAGAN The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them right away.
RONALD REAGAN History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
RONALD REAGAN We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
RONALD REAGAN Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
RONALD REAGAN We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbre...
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