Quotes

Reagan on America

“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”

October 7, 1984

“I think we've given the American people back their spirit. I think there's an optimism in the land and a patriotism, and I think that we're in a position once again to heed the words of Thomas Paine, who said: 'We have it in our power to begin the world over again.'”

— Excerpted from Debate Between the President and Former Vice President Walter F. Mondale in Louisville, Kentucky