I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
Ronald Reagan

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
Ronald Reagan

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.
Ronald Reagan

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Ronald Reagan

How can a president not be an actor?
Ronald Reagan

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
Ronald Reagan

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.
Ronald Reagan

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
Ronald Reagan

This is cool. There is a movement to place a statue of Barry Goldwater in the U.S. Capitol. A resolution to that effect has already passed the U.S. House:

Though defeated in the 1964 presidential race, "Goldwater became an icon for conservatism, starting a movement which many believe led to the election of Ronald Reagan as president in 1980," the resolution states.

As an Arizonan born three years before statehood, Goldwater was a quintessential Westerner who had a lifelong "love affair" with the state that including helping establish the Arizona Air National Guard and extensively photographing its landscapes and its peoples, including Native Americans, the resolution stated.

The House approved the resolution (HJR2001) on a 58-1 vote, sending it to the Senate.

I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service.
- Ronald Reagan

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
Ronald Reagan

Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.
Ronald Reagan

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
Ronald Reagan

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Ronald Reagan

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.
Ronald Reagan