Ronald Reagan


[As a famous movie star] Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees.

     If I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough I would be convinced that we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.

[As a "Forestry expert"] If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.

[About to go on the air for a radio broadcast, unaware that the microphone was already on] My fellow Americans, I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.

     Now we are trying to get unemployment to go up and I think we're going to succeed.

[As US President on the MX missile] Well, I would -- if they realized that we -- again if -- if we led them back to that stalemate only because our retaliatory power, our seconds, or strike at them after our first strike, would be so destructive that they couldn't afford it, that would hold them off.