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Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#deciding #each #exists #gone #government

People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#being #government #high #kicked #life

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#cause #community #country #gave #give

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced 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. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#attention #convinced #downturn #economic #enough

I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in 1974. And I got my doctorate in 1975. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#festival #full-time #got #graduate #graduate school

I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #december #demonstrations

Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#academy #almost #come #could #discovered

The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#african american #american #among #arkansas #communities

The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly. ↗

— Harry Reasoner

#different #events #fly #helicopters #incompetent

If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously. ↗

— Harry Reasoner

#journalist #live #lot #other #people