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"Let me make our goal in this program very clear: jobs, jobs, jobs, and more jobs. Our policy has been and will continue to be: What is good for the American worker is good for America."
"Double - no, triple - our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth."
"I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves."
"There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values."
"An America that is militarily and economically strong is not enough. The world must see an America that is morally strong with a creed and a vision. This is what has led us to dare and achieve. For us, values count."
"For an America of wisdom that honors the family, knowing that if the family goes, so goes our civilization."
"No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers."
"Of the many messages found in the Hanukah story, the one that has always inspired me most is this: with a strong faith in the Almighty, nothing is impossible; and without the help of our Creator, we labor in vain."
"It's time that we recognized that ours was in truth a noble cause."
"I, for one, resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me, the free men and women of this country, as 'the masses.'"
"When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision."
"I heard one presidential candidate say that what this country needed was a president for the nineties. I was set to run again. I thought he said a president IN his nineties."
"If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me up?"
"In Israel, free men and women are every day demonstrating the power of courage and faith. Back in 1948 when Isreal was founded, pundits claimed the new country could never survive. Today, no one questions that. Israel is a land of stability and democracy in a region of tyranny and unrest."
"My philosophy and my belief was that there was a long way for us to go in improving what we had ever known before, that this country of ours was a country of constant improvement. And so I thought that, well, what my whole approach was based on the promise of a better America."
"ALEC has forged a unique partnership between state legislators and leaders from the corporate and business community. This partnership offers businessmen the extraordinary opportunity to apply their talents to solve America's problems and build on our opportunities."
"This is not the time for political fun and games. This is the time for a new beginning. I ask you now to put aside any feelings of frustration or helplessness about our political institutions and join me in this dramatic but responsible plan to reduce the enormous burden of Federal taxation on you and your family."
"I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full-bloom from my brow - they came from the heart of a great nation."
"You know economists; they're the sort of people who see something works in practice and wonder if it would work in theory."
"It should be clear to everyone that the nation's steadfast policy should afford every American of working age a realistic opportunity to acquire the ownership and control of some meaningful form of property in a growing national economy."