This strategy depends on the will of the people to regain control of their government

"[W]hat I am proposing is a strategy which encompasses many elements -- none of which can do the job alone, but all of which together can get it done. This strategy [depends] on the will of the people to regain control of their government.

"[T]he economy concerns more than mere statistics -- it concerns people, families, human hopes, and human suffering." -- Ronald Reagan (1980)

A Real Plan for a Real Future...

"My plan… is rooted in a strategy for economic growth, a program that sees the American economic system as it is - a huge, complex, dynamic system - that can work if the American people get a chance to work….

"At the heart of [my] strategy for economic growth are eight major steps:

1. We must keep the rate of growth of government spending at reasonable and prudent levels.
   
2. We must reduce personal income tax rates and accelerate and simplify depreciation schedules for business in an orderly, systematic way to provide incentives to work, savings, investment, and productivity.
   
3. We must review regulations that effect the economy, and change or eliminate them to encourage economic growth.
   
4. We must establish a stable, sound, and predictable monetary policy.
   
5. We must promote the export of American products abroad.
   
6. We must revitalize American industry.
   
7. We must adopt an energy policy that will allow our economy to grow, and our standard of living to rise.
   
8. And we must restore confidence by following a consistent national economic policy that does not change from month to month." -- Ronald Reagan (1980)

To see the American spirit unleashed once again...

"I would like to see this country become once again a country where a little six-year-old girl can grow up knowing the same freedom that I knew when I was six years old, growing up in America. If this is the America you want for yourself and your children; if you want to restore government not only of and for, but by the people; to see the American spirit unleashed once again; to make this land a shining, golden hope [as] God intended it to be...." -- Ronald Reagan (1976)