Labor force needs and economic conditions are disregarded in our policies. Many aspects of our current policies and procedures are patently wrong. For example, legal immigration has almost no link to U.S. employment needs or economic conditions.
Ronald ReaganWith all this talk about the supposed strain in relations [with the Soviet Union], there is an inference that somehow it is our fault. But we didn't kill Russian civilians by shooting down a civilian airplane. We didn't attempt to conquer an adjacent country to ours. We didn't walk out on negotiations and refuse to give a date for when we would resume.
Ronald ReaganI do not feel betrayed. ... He has a fine record. He is a national hero. (On Oliver L North's work)
Ronald ReaganWe are a nation that has a government-not the other way around. And that makes us special among the nations of the earth.
Ronald Reagan