Top 21 Ronald Reagan Budget Quotes
#1. Yes, the deficit doctors have their scalpels out all right, but they're not poised over the budget. That's as fat as ever and getting fatter. What they're ready to operate on is your wallet.
Ronald Reagan
#2. I learned everything I ever need to know about questioning artful dodgers by covering the most artful of them all, Ronald Reagan. For Reagan, performance was as much a part of governing as understanding the details of the federal budget.
Andrea Mitchell
#3. You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you're in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you've been formed by your surroundings.
Mia Wasikowska
#4. I don't think we'll solve the problem of the deficit until three things happen: We need more discipline on spending in Congress. We need a constitutional amendment requiring Congress to balance the budget. And we need to give our presidents a line-item veto.
Ronald Reagan
#5. Conservatives were brought up to hate deficits and justifiably so. We've long thought there are two things in Washington that are unbalanced - the budget and the liberals.
Ronald Reagan
#6. Were not cutting the budget simply for the sake of sounder financial management. This is only a first step toward returning power to the states and communities, only a first step toward reordering the relationship between citizen and government.
Ronald Reagan
#7. Being a dominatrix gave me the ultimate power: to sing without self-consciousness.
Amy Tan
#8. The first rule of a bureaucracy is to protect the bureaucracy. If the people running the welfare program had let their clientele find other ways of making a living, that would have reduced their importance and their budget.
Ronald Reagan
#9. I picture opening her skull, unspooling her brain and sifting through it, trying to catch and pin down her thoughts.
Gillian Flynn
#10. To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right.
Thomas Paine
#11. The less bravely we live the more stifling becomes our fear of death.
Glenn Haybittle
#12. Why does the UN need to raise money for ebola? Can't the gov just print the damn dollars themselves and get this done already.
Azealia Banks
#13. I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.
Kaley Cuoco
#14. Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no.
Ronald Reagan
#15. So, in every case if you really love someone there is an element of submission to them because you want what's best for them, and at times they're going to tell you what's best for them. Even if you have second thoughts about it, you'll probably still do it because you love them.
Francis George
#16. The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.
Ronald Reagan
#17. Alas, so all things now do hold their peace:
Heaven and earth disturbed in no thing:
The beasts, the air, the birds their song do cease;
The nightes chare the stars about doth bring.
Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey
#18. Speak your truth with grace and integrity, even though it might upset some people. You never know who else, besides yourself, it might help.
Leila Summers
#19. I'm not driving you anymore," Lula said to me. "Every time I take you somewhere, people shoot at us." "Not every time.
Janet Evanovich
#20. Nelson Mandela once said "I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I'm not going to protest."
Kumi Naidoo
#21. We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.
Ronald Reagan