“The size of the Federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.”

Remarks at the Annual Meeting of the National Alliance of Business (5 October 1981) http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1981/100581a.htm
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)

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