Quotes

Reagan on America

“We're realists; we solve our problems instead of ignoring them, no matter how loud the chorus of despair around us.”

January 25, 1983

“We're realists; we solve our problems instead of ignoring them, no matter how loud the chorus of despair around us. But we're also idealists, for it was an ideal that brought our ancestors to these shores from every corner of the world.”

— Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress on the State of the Union