"We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas."
-Ronald Reagan
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"Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.“
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"It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas."
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"It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?"
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"My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out."
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"The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination."
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"Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have."
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