Ronald Reagan

If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.

My philosophy in life is this: if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.

When one person dies, it’s a tragedy, but when a million people die, it’s a statistic.

Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people.

International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia.

As state capitalism developed into the modern era, economic, political and ideological systems have increasingly been taken over by vast institutions of private tyranny that are about as close to the totalitarian ideal as any that humans have so far constructed.

Freedom without opportunity is a devil’s gift, and the refusal to provide such opportunities is criminal.

He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.

In many countries today, moral and ethical norms are being reconsidered; national traditions, differences in nation and culture are being erased.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

…if you want to be praised and have your books reviewed and told how brilliant you are and get great jobs, it’s not advisable to be a dissident. It’s not impossible, and in fact the system has enough looseness in it so that it can be done, but it is not easy.

One day we took each other by the hand and went for a walk in the evening. And we walked like that for our whole life.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century… This is a problem that cannot be postponed.

My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education.

A ‘rogue state’ is a state that defies international laws and conventions, does not consider itself bound by the major treaties and conventions, World Court decisions-in fact, anything except the interests of its own leadership, the forces around the leadership that dominate policy.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.