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“I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.” “The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.” “Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.”

"The Difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending, and they want to spend government checks"(refering to the Democrats) "Too many people, especially in government, feel that the nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program." "You might be weary of me sounding the same alarms. you might think, we have heard all this before, but somehow we muddled through. Well, this is like the window-washer who fell from the Empire State building. When he passed the twentieth floor, he said, "so far, so good."" "When those...

10. "Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." —Remarks at a business conference, Los Angeles, March 2, 1977 9. "You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans." —The Observer, March 29, 1981 8. “Thomas Jefferson once said, "We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying." —Circa 1988 7. "I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of...

The most exciting moment of my life was voting for Ronald Reagan in 1980. I had supported him against Gerald Ford in 1976 when he failed by just a handful of votes at the GOP convention. He represented my ideals of tolerance, affability, freedom, and unbreakable will against the Communists.