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There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, and there never will be under a Ford administration. — Gerald Ford · 1976I’ve noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born. — Ronald Reagan · 1980Next Tuesday all of you will go to the polls, will stand there in the polling place and make a decision. I think when you make that decision it might be well if you would ask yourself: Are you better off than you were four years ago? — Ronald Reagan · 1980Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy. — Lloyd Bentsen · 1988I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience. — Ronald Reagan · 1984
Politics2 quotes
With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. — Abraham Lincoln · 1858I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience. — Ronald Reagan · 1984
Abortion1 quote
I’ve noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born. — Ronald Reagan · 1980
There is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. — Abraham Lincoln · 1858
Cold War1 quote
There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, and there never will be under a Ford administration. — Gerald Ford · 1976
There is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. — Abraham Lincoln · 1858
If you're paying $12, $13, $14 an hour for a factory worker, and you can move your factory south of the border, pay $1 an hour for labor... Have no environmental controls, no pollution controls, and no retirement. And you don't care about anything but making money. There will be a giant sucking sound going south. — Ross Perot · 1992
Elections1 quote
Next Tuesday all of you will go to the polls, will stand there in the polling place and make a decision. I think when you make that decision it might be well if you would ask yourself: Are you better off than you were four years ago? — Ronald Reagan · 1980
Equality1 quote
There is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. — Abraham Lincoln · 1858
Oops. — Rick Perry · 2011
If you're paying $12, $13, $14 an hour for a factory worker, and you can move your factory south of the border, pay $1 an hour for labor... Have no environmental controls, no pollution controls, and no retirement. And you don't care about anything but making money. There will be a giant sucking sound going south. — Ross Perot · 1992
There is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. — Abraham Lincoln · 1858
I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience. — Ronald Reagan · 1984
With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. — Abraham Lincoln · 1858
With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. — Abraham Lincoln · 1858
There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, and there never will be under a Ford administration. — Gerald Ford · 1976