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"President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people."
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"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."
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"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom."
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"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."
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"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."
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"The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments."
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"Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure."
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"It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for."
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"We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government."
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"The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion."
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"Congress needs strong parties, but it also needs the capacity to deal with budget and entitlement challenges that are likely beyond the reach of pure partisan exertion."
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"For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull."
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"Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users."
Health

"Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you."
Politics

"I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations."
Business

"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."
Leadership

"This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies."
Country

"Power has to be insecure to be responsive."
Power

"President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people."
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"I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."
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"The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun."
Energy
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