Quotes

Reagan on Business

“Well, it's okay, you can throw away any papers more than 8 years old provided you make copies of each one of them first.”

April 13, 1988

“I remember the old story about a businessman who after many years of dutifully keeping the records and documents required by the Federal Government in his particular business, and with the files really piling up, he wrote the Government asking if he still needed to keep all the old documents. And a letter came back saying, 'Well, it's okay, you can throw away any papers more than 8 years old provided you make copies of each one of them first.'”

— Remarks at a White House Briefing for Members of the Young Presidents' Organization