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Quote DB :: Authors :: Ronald Reagan :: View Quote View Quote "Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Ronald Reagan Listed in: Economics Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.69  Rate Quote 39 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Ronald Reagan "Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer." "Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem." "The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution." "Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas." "Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other." Top 5 quotes from Economics "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on the objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." "The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." "Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it." "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages." "We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."

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