President Ronald Reagan Memorial Thread

Various | 6-10-04

[Indy Pendance]

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I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. congress
- Ronald Reagan

I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
- Ronald Reagan

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

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
- Ronald Reagan

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
- Ronald Reagan

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes. (Said during a radio microphone test in 1984.)
- Ronald Reagan

[Vermonter]

Stolen from another thread, with credit to My2Cents

I'm reminded of Reagan's quip, back in his first term, about why he hadn't met with any Soviet leader: "They keep dying on me."

[ned13]

I used that quote at the beginning of my acknowledgments for my dissertation. It is "There is no limit to what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit."

[propertius]

A few more:

« A government agency is the nearest thing we’ll ever see on this earth »
Ronald Reagan

“The difference between them (the Democrats) and us (the Republicans) is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks.”
Ronald Reagan

"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"
Ronald Reagan

"I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born."
Ronald Reagan

[propertius]

Sorry that first one should read:

« A government agency is the nearest thing we’ll ever see to eternity on this earth »
Ronald Reagan

[tame]

According to D'Souza's book, here are some things Reagan said about or to the hippie protesters when he was governor of California:

"Their signs say make love, not war...but they don't look like they could do much of either."

Reagan said about one demonstrater that he "had a haircut like Tarzan, walked like Jane, and smelled like Cheetah."

While Reagan was riding in his limo, a student held up a sign that said "We are the future" to which Ronnie wrote and held against the window his own sign which said, "I'll sell my bonds."

Some militants promised Ronnie a "bloodbath". He told them to take a bath.

[Indy Pendance]

LOL! He sure had a great sense of humor.

[propertius]

And a few more:

Honey, I forgot to duck." -to his wife, Nancy, after surviving a 1981 assassination attempt

"I hope you're all Republicans." -speaking to surgeons as he entered the operating room following his assassination attempt

"I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience." -during a 1984 presidential debate with Walter Mondale


"Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his."


"I'm afraid I can't use a mule. I have several hundred up on Capitol Hill." –refusing a gift of a mule

[wjcsux]

"I am not worried about the deficit, its big enough to take care of itself".

[tame]

from D'Souza (I also heard Rush mention this story the other day):

"At one campus meeting, a student told Reagan that it was impossible for people of Reagan's generation to understand young people. [The student said] 'You grew up in a different world. Today we have television, jet planes, space travel, nuclear energy, computers.' Without missing a beat Reagan replied, 'Your right. It's true that we didn't have those things when we were young. We invented them.'"

[My2Cents]

Well, there he goes again...

[wjcsux]

IMHO, this was one of the prettiest sites the world has ever seen!

[My2Cents]

From my profile page --

[My2Cents]

Beautiful....I've said a couple times this week on FR that the fact that Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher governed their respective nations at the same critical moment in history is proof positive there is a God.

[wjcsux]

I'm afraid I can't use a mule. I have several hundred up on Capitol Hill." –refusing a gift of a mule
Too funny!

[tame]

From D'Souza:

"On the morning of inauguration day, Reagan's aide Michael Deaver at Blair house shortly before 9 A.M. to help the Reagans prepare for the ceremonies. 'Where's the governor?' Deaver asked, and Nancy replied, 'I guess he's still in bed.' Astonished, Deaver walked into the bedroom, where the lights were out and the curtains were drawn.
'Governor?'
'Yeah?'
'It's nine o'clock.'
'Yeah?'
'You're going to be inaugurated in two hours.'
'Does that mean I have to get up?'"

[tame]

Reagan: "I know that hard work never killed anyone, but I figure, why take a chance?"

[Indy Pendance]

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
Ronald Reagan

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
Ronald Reagan

Facts are stupid things.
Ronald Reagan

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
Ronald Reagan

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it.
Ronald Reagan

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Ronald Reagan

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
Ronald Reagan

People don't start wars, governments do.
Ronald Reagan

[tame]

Reagan: "There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, anytime."

[tame]

[eleni121]

I was still a leftie in the early in the 80s but having seen the left from the inside I was open to offers. When Dukakis ran against Reagan I was proud that an American of Greek descent had attained such a position.

I asked my Mom (an immigrant from Greece) what she thought we should do about our votes. I asked her if we should vote for "blood".

Mom said that voting ideas and ideals as our ancestors had believed in doing was by far the better option.

We both voted for Reagan and I have never looked back since.