Ronald Reagan Quotes About House

• We don't lump people by groups or special interests. And let me add, in the party of Lincoln there is no room for intolerance and not even a small corner for anti-Semitism or bigotry of any kind. Many people are welcome in our house, but not the bigots.

  Ronald Reagan

  Party, People, House

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

• An old Russian woman goes into Kremlin, gets an audience with Mikhail Gorbachev and says, In America anyone can go to the White House, walk up to Reagan's desk and say, 'I don't like the way you are running the country.' Gorbachev replied, You can do the same thing in the Soviet Union. You can go into the Kremlin, walk up to my desk and say 'I don't like the way Reagan is running his country.'

  Ronald Reagan

  Running, Country, War

• Since I came to the White House, I got two hearing aids, a colon operation, skin cancer, a prostate operation, and I was shot. The damn thing is, I've never felt better in my life.

  Ronald Reagan

  Cancer, Two, White

• It was the hard work of our people, the freedom they enjoyed and their faith in God that built this country and made it the envy of the world. In all of our great cities and towns evidence of the faith of our people is found: houses of worship of every denomination are among the oldest structures. While never willing to bow to a tyrant, our forefathers were always willing to get to their knees before God. When catastrophe threatened, they turned to God for deliverance. When the harvest was bountiful the first thought was thanksgiving to God.

  Ronald Reagan

  God, Country, Hard Work

• I like photographers - you don't ask questions. (To a gathering of the White House News Photographers Association)

  Ronald Reagan

  White, House, Gathering

• I'm sure everyone feels sorry for the individual who has fallen by the wayside or who can't keep up in our competitive society, but my own compassion goes beyond that to those millions of unsung men and women, who get up every morning, send the kids to school, go to work, try to keep up the payments on their house, pay exorbitant taxes to make possible compassion for the less fortunate, and as a result have to sacrifice many of their own desires and dreams and hopes. Government owes them something better than always finding a new way to make them share the fruit of their toils with others.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Morning, Sorry

• [Andrew Jackson] was actually 70 years old when he left the White House

  Ronald Reagan

  Humor, Years, White

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

• If I thought there was some reason to be concerned about them, I wouldn't be sleeping in this house tonight. (When asked about continued presence of Soviet nuclear submarines along US coastlines)

  Ronald Reagan

  Sleep, House, Nuclear

• The White House is the leakiest place I've ever been in. (On special measures to ensure secrecy of plans to bomb Libya)

  Ronald Reagan

  White, House, Special

• Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest.

  Ronald Reagan

  Science, House, Bird

  Ronald Reagan, Bill Adler (1981). “The Reagan wit”, Jameson Books

• Directly down the lawn and accross the Ellipse from the White House are those ordered, classic lines of the Jefferson Memorial and the eyes of the 19-foot statue that gaze directly into the White House, a reminder to any of us who might occupy that mansion of the quality of mind and generosity of heart that once abided there and has been so rarely seen there again.

  Ronald Reagan

  Eye, Heart, White

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1991). “Ronald Reagan”

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