Ronald Reagan

You've got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan,
because when you quote him accurately
it's called mudslinging.-- Walter Mondale
 




Alzheimer's in 1981?
'President Reagan fails to reconize his only 
black Cabinet member, Housing Secretary 
Samuel Pierce, at a White House reception 
for big city mayors. "How are you, Mr. Mayor?" 
he greets him.  "I'm glad to meet you.  
How are things in your city?"
6/12/1981
 
'I was in such a hurry, I wrote my last 
name first.' 
Reagan, after signing his 
tax reform bill 'Reagan Ronald'

Believe
"It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this 
country because food isn't available.

Beirut
"He may be willing to surrender, but I am not."
Reagan attacking Tip O'Neill's advocacy of a pullout 
of Beirut 2/2/1984

President Reagan announces plans to get the Marines 
out of Beirut and onto offshore ships, describing the 
retreat as "decisive new steps." His spokesman says 
"We don't consider this as a withdrawal but more of 
a redeployment." 2/7/1984

Bloodbath
If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with.
Ronald Reagan, April 7th, 1970   
Governor of California & soon-to-be US President, 
on his attitude towards student civil rights activists, 
dissenters, & Vietnam War protestors

Braille
President Reagan tells a $2,500-per-ticket 
GOP fundraiser in Cinncinnati about a letter from 
a blind supporter. "He wrote in Braille," 
the President claims, "to tell me that if 
cutting his pension would help get this 
country back on its feet, he'd like to have me 
cut his pension."
Reagan 11/30/1981

Bullshit
"We have never interfered in the internal government
of a country and have no intention of doing so,
never have had any thought of that kind."
Ronald Reagan, 1982

Curiosity
Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?
Ronald Wilson Reagan
Source:Omni, Mar 1988

Deficit
"I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to 
take care of itself." 
Ronald Reagan

Education
"We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education 
and the decline in profit over recent years." '83
 
Facts
"Facts are stupid things." '88 (slight misquote of 
John Adams, 'Facts are stubborn things.')

Free Enterprise
Free enterprise is a rough and competitive game. It is a hell of a lot 
better than a government monoploy.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
Source:Speech Dec 8, 1972

Future
I believe that the future is far nearer than most 
of us would dare hope.
Reagan 9/24/84

History
"History teaches that wars begin when governments believe
the price of aggression is cheap."
Ronald Reagan
SOURCE:http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Ronald.Reagan.Quote.B752

Homeless Americas
One problem that we've had, even in the best of times, 
is the people sleeping on the grates, the homeless who 
are homeless, you might say, by choice.
Reagan 1/31/84

Iran Contra
"For 18 months now, we have had under way 
a secret diplomatic initiative to Iran. 
That initative was undertaken for the 
simplest and best reasons: to renew a 
relationship with the nation of Iran; 
to bring a honorable end to the bloddy 
six-year war between Iran and Iraq;
to eliminate state-spondored terrorism 
and subversion, and to effect the safe 
return of all hostages...
Durning the course of our secret discussions, 
I authorized the transfer of small amounts 
of defensive weapons and spare parts for 
defensive systems to Iran....These modest 
deliveries, taken together could easily 
fit into a single cargo plane....
We did not--repeat--did not trade weapons 
or anything else for hostages, nor will we.
Reagan Nov 14, 1986
Speech to Nation

Labor
"Are you entitled to the fruits of your labor
or does government have some presumptive right
to spend and spend and spend?"
-- Ronald Reagan
(1911-2004) 40th US President
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Ronald.Reagan.Quote.B6D6

Latin America
"Well, I learned a lot.  You'd be suprised.  
They're all individual countries."
Reagan talking to reporters upon his return 
from Latin American. 12/4/1982
 
Lights
They turned out the lights.  That tells me I can't 
talk anymore.
Reagan explaining why he can't answer 
anymore questions.  6/19/85

New Deal
"Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal." '76 

Nuclear War
Nuclear war would be the greatest tragedy, I think, 
ever experienced by mankind in the history
of mankind.
Reagan 3/6/85



Reagan Mateing Motion To Common Worker

Polish Government
During a sound check for his weekly radio 
address, President Reagan refers to the Polish 
government as a "Bunch of no-good lousy bums"
Reagan 10/9/1982
(Note: Jobless Rate in the US is up to 10.1% 
at the time. Worst in 42 years)

Political Law
"Nations crumble from within when the citizenry
asks of government those things which
the citizenry might better provide for itself. ...
[I] hope we have once again reminded people that
man is not free unless government is limited.
There's a clear cause and effect here that
is as neat and predictable as a law of physics:
As government expands, liberty contracts."
Ronald Reagan
(1911-2004) 40th US President
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Ronald.Reagan.Quote.70F6

Politics
Politics is just like show business.  You have 
a hell of a opening, coast for a while, 
and then have a hell of a close.
Reagan to aide Stuart Spencer, 1966

"Politics is not a bad profession.
If you succeed there are many rewards,
if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."
Ronald Reagan

Pollution and Trees
"Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do." Reagan '81
 
"A tree is a tree. How many more do you have to look at?"
Reagan '66

"I have flown twice over Mt St Helens out on our west coast. 
I'm not a scientist and I don't know the figures, but I have a suspicion 
that one little mountain has probably released more sulphur dioxide 
into the atmosphere of the world than has been released in the last ten 
years of automobile driving or things of that kind that people are so 
concerned about." Reagan '80. (Actually, Mount St. Helens, at its 
peak activity, emitted about 2,000 tons of sulphur dioxide per day, 
compared with 81,000 tons per day by cars.)

There is today in the United States as much 
forest as there was when Washington was at 
Valley Forge.
Reagan 3/5/1983

Progressive Tax
"Have we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and
discrimination of the progressive tax, and demand a return to
traditional proportionate taxation? ...
Today in our country the tax collector's share is 37 cents
of every dollar earned. Freedom has never been so fragile,
so close to slipping from our grasp."
Ronald Reagan
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Ronald.Reagan.Quote.B6D2

Ransom
I don't think you pay ransom for people that 
have been kidnapped by barbarians.
Reagan 12/28/80
(note: I guess he didn't lie, He didn't pay money
but he did trade arms.)

Real Destroyer
"You and I are told we must choose between a left or right,
but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right.
There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream --
the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order --
or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism.
Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives,
those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on
this downward path. Plutarch warned,
'The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he
who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.'"
Ronald Reagan
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Ronald.Reagan.Quote.2508

Tax Or User Fee?
"It would be a user fee."
Reagan explaining that his proposed 
five-cent-a-gallon gasoline tax would not 
be a Tax at all."
11/11/1982

Tax Reform
"We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward 
restoring for our children the American Dream that wealth is 
denied to no one, that each individual has the right to fly 
as high as his strength and ability will take him.... But we 
cannot have such reform while our tax policy is engineered by 
people who view the tax as a means of achieving changes in our social 
structure." 
-- Ronald Reagan
Source:http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Ronald.Reagan.Quote.B6D0

Too Much
"The federal government has taken
too much tax money from the people,
too much authority from the states, and
too much liberty with the Constitution."
Ronald Reagan
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Ronald.Reagan.Quote.70F8

Unemployment
"Now we are trying to get unemployment to go up and I think 
we're going to succeed"
Ronald Reagan

"Unemployment insurance is a prepaid vacation plan for freeloaders." 
Reagan
Source:http://www.cs.umb.edu/jfklibrary/e081280.htm
 
Voting Rights Acts
"I regard voting as the most sacred right of 
free men and women"
Reagan, refuses to support an extension of the 
Voting Rights Act 6/29/81

Welfare Reform
Even though there may be some misguided critics
of what we're trying to do, I think we're on
the wrong path.
Reagan, Launching his welfare refore
program 2/9/1987

Women
If it wasn't for women, us men would still be 
walking around in skin suits carring clubs.
Reagan 8/3/1983

Work
It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, 
why take the chance?
Speech, 22 April 1987
 


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