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"Common sense, sometimes is worth a lot more than highly, highly sophisticated theories." - Christ Lagarde, Managing Director, IMF, April 11, 2014

"Change is hard. Fixing what's broken is hard. Overcoming skepticism and fear of something new is hard. A lot of times folks would prefer the devil they know to the devil they don't...
but today should remind us that the goal we've set for ourselves... that goal is achievable."
- Pres. Barack Obama, April 1, 2014

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." - Pres. John F. Kennedy

"I've been to Harvard, I've been to Columbia, and there's a lot of dumb people out there..." - Jesse Watters, Fox News, O'Reilly Factor

Ronald Reagan Quotes:

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at the point of a bayonet, if necessary. Ronald Reagan, Los Angeles Times, October 20, 1965

 Lord Acton said power corrupts. Surely then, if this is true, the more power we give the government the more corrupt it will become. And if we give it the power to confiscate our arms we also give up the ultimate means to combat that corrupt power. 

On the farm, on the street corner, in the factory and in the kitchen, millions of us ask nothing more, but certainly nothing less than to live our own lives according to our values — at peace with ourselves, our neighbors and the world.

I don't agree that our nation must resign itself to inevitable decline, yielding its proud position to other hands. I am totally unwilling to see this country fail in its obligation to itself and to the other free peoples of the world.

I believe with all my heart that our first priority must be world peace, and that use of force is always and only a last resort, when everything else has failed, and then only with regard to our national security.

This is not the time for political fun and games. This is the time for a new beginning.

We can be so thankful that Dr. King raised his mighty eloquence for love and hope rather than for hostility and bitterness. He took the tension he found in our nation, a tension of injustice, and channeled it for the good of America and all her people.

The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor.

Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense.

Recognizing the equality of all men and women, we are willing and able to lift the weak, cradle those who hurt, and nurture the bonds that tie us together as one nation under God.

We in the United States, above all, must remember that lesson [of the Holocaust], for we were founded as a nation of openness to people of all beliefs. And so we must remain. Our very unity has been strengthened by our pluralism. We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are, and must remain, separate. All are free to believe or not believe, all are free to practice a faith or not, and those who believe are free, and should be free, to speak of and act on their belief.

It is time for us to realize that we're too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams. We're not, as some would have us believe, doomed to an inevitable decline. I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing. 

We will never recognize the true value of our own lives until we affirm the value in the life of others.

"We the people" tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us. "We the people" are the driver, the government is the car. And we decide where it should go, and by what route, and how fast. Almost all the world's constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which "We the people" tell the government what it is allowed to do. "We the people" are free.

America's best days are yet to come. Our proudest moments are yet to be. Our most glorious achievements are just ahead.

But something strange has happened. Instead of just talking about new spending programs and debating them in Washington, as they have for years and years and decades, today there's a whole different argument. The fight is over, ``How much can we cut? And, yes, they have their way sometimes, and we don't get all that we ask for. But I've always figured I'll settle for 75 percent or 80 percent, if I can get that much of the cuts. And we can do it as long as we maintain that Senate. – Remarks at a Dinner Honoring Senator Rudy Boschwitz in Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 9, 1983

During our visit, I was impressed with the sincere desire of the Chinese people to strengthen our cooperation for the mutual benefit of both our peoples. And I expressed to them on your behalf and on behalf of all the people of the United States our commitment to a more peaceful and prosperous world. And I told them that we're anxious to live and trade together as friends. I found that same sentiment true with the Chinese people everywhere we traveled. Instead of the points of difference that some might suspect in the meetings, that this kept us at edge -- no. We frankly recognized and from both sides we said and they said, ``But let's talk about the things that we have in common and where we can agree. – Remarks at a Luncheon With Community Leaders in Fairbanks, Alaska, May 1, 1984