Speaking to surgeons as he entered the operating room following a 1981 assassination attempt. http://www.rd.com/content/openContent.do?contentId=26804&pageIndex=1 To which Dr. Joseph Giordano replied, "We're all Republicans today." An alternative version has Reagan saying "Please tell me you're Republicans." (30 March 1981) 1980s, First term of office (1981–1985) Variant: I hope you're all Republican. Source: Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches

“If there's one observation that rings true in today's changing world, it is that freedom and peace go hand in hand.”

Ronald Reagan

Source: The Quest for Peace, the Cause of Freedom

“Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed.”

Ronald Reagan

“Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive”

Ronald Reagan

“Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it.”

Ronald Reagan

“Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.”

Ronald Reagan

“Never let the things you can't do, stop you from doing what you can.”

Ronald Reagan

“The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.”

Ronald Reagan

“If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.”

Ronald Reagan

“All great change in America begins at the dinner table.”

Ronald Reagan

“A people free to choose will always choose peace.”

Ronald Reagan

Variant: A people free to choose will always choose peace

“You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.”

Ronald Reagan

“Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.”

Ronald Reagan

Joke during his 1965 campaign for Governor of California, as quoted by Leo E. Litwak in The New York Times Magazine (14 November 1965), p. 174 http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50F13FC3B591B7A93C6A8178AD95F418685F9. Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. As quoted in The Reagan Wit (1981) by Bill Adler, p. 30 1960s