Quotes

Reagan on Unemployment

“A President's greatest responsibility is to protect all our people from enemies, foreign and domestic.”

October 13, 1982

“A President's greatest responsibility is to protect all our people from enemies, foreign and domestic. Here at home the worst enemy we face is economic -- the creeping erosion of the American way of life and the American dream that has resulted in today's tragedy of economic stagnation and unemployment.”

— Excerpted from Address to the Nation on the Economy