Quotes

Reagan on National Security, Inflation, and America

“Well, as long as I'm President, we're not going back to the days when America was fast becoming an impotent democracy, too weak to meet defense commitments or to resist Communist takeovers and, yes, too weak to stop a Federal spending machine from impoverishing families and destroying our economy with runaway taxes and inflation.”

March 2, 1985

Radio Address to the Nation on the Fiscal Year 1986 Budget