"Bureaucracy is adept at protecting its nest...." - Quote by Ronald Reagan

“Excellence does not begin in Washington.”

“My golf-loving friend Bob Hope asked me what my handicap was, so I told him - the Congress.”

“A stronger defense is an investment in peace.”

“Some civil servants are neither servants nor civil.”

“What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest suspicion! Were all the employees nothing but a bunch of scoundrels, was there not among them one single loyal devoted man who, had he wasted only an hour or so of the firm's time in the morning, was so tormented by conscience as to be driven out of his mind and actually incapable of leaving his bed?”

“Accepting a government grant with its accompanying rules is like marrying a girl and finding out her entire family is moving in with you before the honeymoon.”

“Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day.”

“Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.”

“Every time somebody has thought of relief for the farmer it has been to make it so he could borrow more money. What he needs is some way to pay back. Not some way to borrow more.”