Preston

“Here’s my formula: I usually start with a joke or story to catch the audience’s attention; then I tell them what I am going to tell them, I tell them, and then I tell them what I just told them.”
― Ronald Reagan, An American Life: The Autobiography

“I don’t think we’ll solve the problem of the deficit until three things happen: We need more discipline on spending in Congress. We need a constitutional amendment requiring Congress to balance the budget. And we need to give our presidents a line-item veto.”
― Ronald Reagan, An American Life: An Enhanced eBook with CBS Video: The Autobiography

“Liberty has never come from government,” Woodrow Wilson, one of FDR’s predecessors and another Democrat, said. “The history of liberty is the history of limitation of government’s power, not the increase of it.”
― Ronald Reagan, An American Life: An Enhanced eBook with CBS Video: The Autobiography

“It reminded me of something that James Madison said in 1788: “Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”
― Ronald Reagan, An American Life: An Enhanced eBook with CBS Video: The Autobiography