Quote of The Day from Ronald Reagan

Today would have been the 100th birthday of Ronald Reagan, President. Lord, I do miss the man. He had a capacity, not unique but rare, for expressing with terrible clarity the actual situation. And there are records of this. He came to office at a time in many respects similar to ours, and left the nation in better shape than he found it.

Try this one.

"The economic ills we suffer have come upon us over several decades. They will not go away in days, weeks, or months, but they will go away. They will go away because we as Americans have the capacity now, as we've had in the past, to do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom. In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?"

--Ronald Wilson Reagan, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1981