For The Eight Years I Was President

To Paraphrase Winston Churchill, I Did Not Take The Oath I Have Just Taken With The Intention Of Presiding Over The Dissolution Of The World's Strongest Economy.

If We Look To The Answer As To Why For So Many Years We Achieved So Much, Prospered As No Other People On Earth, It Was Because Here In This Land We Unleashed The Energy And Individual Genius Of Man To A Greater Extent Than Has Ever Been Done Before. Freedom And The Dignity Of The Individual Have Been More Available And Assured Here Than In Any Other Place On Earth. The Price For This Freedom At Times Has Been High, But We Have Never Been Unwilling To Pay That Price.

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.'

A Leader, Once Convinced That A Particular Course Of Action Is The Right One, Must....be Undaunted When The Going Gets Tough.

We Could Say The Government Spend Like Drunken Sailors, But That Would Be Unfair To Drunken Sailors, Because The Sailors Are Spending Their Own Money.