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Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
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Joke during his 1965 campaign for Governor of California, as quoted in The New York Times Magazine (14 November 1965), p. 174
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Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
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As quoted in The Reagan Wit (1981) by Bill Adler, p. 30

 

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