A few others I like:
(To reporters at a WH presser) “Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.” (Reagan had a great sense of humor)
“But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.”
“Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.”
“Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.”
“How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”
“I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.”
“I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I’m in a cabinet meeting.” (LOL!)
“If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn’t be here. It’d still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.”
“If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.”
“My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.” (Microphone test that actually aired, 1984)
“One picture is worth 1,000 denials.”
“One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.”
“Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15th.”
“Some people wonder all their lives if they’ve made a difference. The Marines don’t have that problem.”
“Status quo, you know, is Latin for ‘the mess we’re in’.”
“The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.”
“To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.”
“Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.”
“Trust, but verify.”
“Violence has been Nicaragua’s most important export to the world.”
“We must reject the idea that every time a law is broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.”
“Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.”
and of course...
“Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
Good list