"Now we are trying to get unemployment to go up, and I think we are going to succeed."

- RR in '82

"I didn't go down there with any plan for the Americas, or anything. I went down to find out from them and {learn} their views. You'd be surprised. They're all individual countries."

- RR in '82 , responding to a question about whether his Latin American trip had changed his outlook on the region

"Facts are stupid things."

- RR, addressing the Republican National Convention in 1988. He was misquoting John Adams, who in 1770 wrote "Facts are stubborn things." Regan repeated the mistake several times.