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Most politicians - those people who live, eat and breathe politics - like to sit around and talk about politics and tell political war stories. Reagan didn't do that. His war stories were movie war stories and Hollywood war stories. He loved that.

Lyn Nofziger
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I don't like government, it's just that simple.
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He and Reagan were not at all alike, because Reagan is an optimist and Dick Nixon wasn't. Yet in some ways they were alike. Neither really liked to talk on the telephone, for instance. And, in a lot of respects, both of them were very much loners.
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One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't.
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The best thing going for us is Al Gore. I cannot conceive how the American people could elect him. On the other hand, I couldn't conceive how they could elect a Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton - especially Clinton in '96.
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Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life.
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A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote.
Lyn Nofziger
Most politicians - those people who live, eat and breathe politics - like to sit around and talk about politics and tell political war stories. Reagan didn't do that. His war stories were movie war stories and Hollywood war stories. He loved that.
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These things I believe: that government should butt out.
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The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid.
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That foreign trade should be fair rather than free.
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Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away.
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I cannot show remorse because I do not believe I am guilty.
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That guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government.
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Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility.
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I'm not a social friend of the Reagans. That's by their choice and by mine. They don't drink enough.
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The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.
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That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.
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I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important aspect of our lives.
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The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
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We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.
Hattie McDaniel
I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.
J. J. Johnson
Awards were made in Hollywood, in whatever the time it was created. They're to promote each other's movies. You give me an award, I give you an award and people will believe that we are great movies and they'll go to see them. It's still the same.
Javier Bardem
I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.
Quentin Tarantino
It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide.
Charlie Hunnam
The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.
Rainer W. Fassbinder
Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star. We had no idea that other people would think we were special, because there was no other lifestyle to compare it to.
Liza Minnelli
I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard.
Rachel Ward
Hollywood is kind of a bad world.
Mia Maestro
It's so crazy in Hollywood.
David Spade
I don't think I ever understood Hollywood.
Gloria Grahame
I came across awful characters when I got some kind of status and came to Hollywood. Then you have directors trying to sleep with you, assuming that you will do things because of the way you dress.
Stacey Dash
Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess.
Kyra Sedgwick
A few nights ago I went to a Hollywood screening of a small independent film made by Sally Kirkland, an old friend of mine who also did terrific job acting in it. There were other actors in it and they were all terrific.
Nick Mancuso
Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.
Dirk Benedict
Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story.
Chris Farley
Hollywood is what you make it; you have to choose company with care because you become what they are.
Bonnie Hunt
Hollywood is a world all its own.
Moira Kelly
Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood.
Budd Schulberg
What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait.
Hattie McDaniel
If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day, so they wanted to change it to February 14. A Latin lover should be born on Valentine's Day. I said no.
Cesar Romero
In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.
Allan Sherman
There are plenty of lesbians in Hollywood, but they're not out. And that's their choice, but I can't do that, it's too important to me.
Jill Bennett
After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.
Edgar Bergen
What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing.
Alejandro Amenabar
No one has a closest friend in Hollywood.
Sheilah Graham
I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.
Gene Tierney
Acting coaches in Hollywood were always telling me to use my hands and body more. But that was never me. I just breathe and sometimes it doesn't look as if I'm doing that.
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