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Top 10 Greatest Quips from Ronald Reagan
Human Events ^ | 1/20/05

Posted on 01/21/2006 4:01:06 PM PST by rhema

10. "Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." —Remarks at a business conference, Los Angeles, March 2, 1977

9. "You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans." —The Observer, March 29, 1981

8. “Thomas Jefferson once said, "We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying." —Circa 1988

7. "I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting." —Said often during his presidency, 1981-1989

6. "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." —Remarks in Arlington, Virginia, September 25, 1987

5. "The 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, subsidize it." —Remarks to the White House Conference on Small Business, August 15, 1986

4. “I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.” —Said often during his presidency, 1981-1989

3. "All great change in America begins at the dinner table." —Farewell Address to the Nation, The White House, January 11, 1989

2. "I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born." —The New York Times, September 22, 1980

1. "There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." — First Inaugural Address, January 21, 1981


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To: rhema
Upon greeting Reagan at the Capitol in '81;

Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker: "Mr. President, I'll be with you through thick."

RR: "What about 'thin'?"

HB: "Welcome to Washington, Mr. President."

61 posted on 01/21/2006 4:30:21 PM PST by rvoitier ("Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans." -- Dr. Thomas Sowell)
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To: ErnBatavia
"A heavy bronze plaque with that inscription should be delivered personally to each and every 'Rat senator and congressrat."

They'll need someone to help them with the big words though

62 posted on 01/21/2006 4:30:51 PM PST by cake_crumb (Leftist Credo: One Wing to Rule them All and to the Darkside Bind them)
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To: rhema

BTTT, for a great man, and a great POTUS.


63 posted on 01/21/2006 4:31:19 PM PST by LucyJo ("I have overcome the world." "Abide in Me." (John 16:33; 15:4)
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To: rhema

BTTT, for a great man, and a great POTUS.


64 posted on 01/21/2006 4:31:19 PM PST by LucyJo ("I have overcome the world." "Abide in Me." (John 16:33; 15:4)
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To: rhema
The Great Communicator
65 posted on 01/21/2006 4:31:30 PM PST by exdem2000
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To: ErnBatavia
"I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves."

I really miss him

66 posted on 01/21/2006 4:32:19 PM PST by cake_crumb (Leftist Credo: One Wing to Rule them All and to the Darkside Bind them)
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To: ohioWfan

"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


67 posted on 01/21/2006 4:33:14 PM PST by Keith in Iowa (Democrats are to the US Media what Al-Qaeda is to Aljazeera.)
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To: LucyJo

Sorry about the double post but, if anybody ever deserved the extra praise, he did.


68 posted on 01/21/2006 4:33:31 PM PST by LucyJo ("I have overcome the world." "Abide in Me." (John 16:33; 15:4)
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To: rvoitier

LOL


69 posted on 01/21/2006 4:34:16 PM PST by apackof2 (You can stand me up at the gates of hell, I'll stand my ground and I won’t back down)
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To: Kimmers

I'll never forget being glued to the tv for his funeral. What an awesome tribute to an awesome man. And the people who lined the highway on the way to his library.


70 posted on 01/21/2006 4:34:47 PM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: Keith in Iowa
Excellent! Such a great moment, wasn't it?

Not that the election was ever in doubt. Yikes! Mondale was a loser!

Thanks for the exact quote.

71 posted on 01/21/2006 4:34:47 PM PST by ohioWfan (PROUD Mom of an Iraq War VET! THANKS, son!!!!)
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To: rhema

"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


72 posted on 01/21/2006 4:35:15 PM PST by Always Right
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To: rhema

Life
by Ronald Reagan


I wonder what it's all about,
and why We suffer so,
when little things go wrong?
We make our life a struggle,
When life should be a song.

Our troubles break and drench us.
Like spray on the cleaving prow
Of some trim
Gloucester schooner.
As it dips in a graceful bow...

But why does sorrow drench us
When our fellow passes on?
He's just exchanged life's dreary dirge
For an eternal life of song...

Millions have gone before us,
And millions will come behind,
So why do we curse and fight
At a fate both wise and kind?

We hang onto a jaded life
A life full of sorrow and pain.
A life that warps and breaks us,
And we try to run through it again.

 



President Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1911-2004

 

 

 


73 posted on 01/21/2006 4:36:25 PM PST by Lady Jag ( All I want is a kind word, a warm bed, and unlimited power)
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To: rhema
How could we all forget the most important words spoken in the twentieth century?


Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, TEAR DOWN TIS WALL!

74 posted on 01/21/2006 4:36:44 PM PST by DeSoto (Veni, vidi, velcro ... I came, I saw, I stuck around !)
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To: ohioWfan

Responding to a question about concerns over his age, President Reagan closed with: "And I will NOT exploit my opponent's youth and inexperience for political gain."

The look on Modale's face after that was priceless.


75 posted on 01/21/2006 4:37:01 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Yes. The man really does have a dog named "Splash".)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
IMO, GWB had the chance to equal or exceed Reagan's accomplishments.

Bush is a good man, but not in the same league.

76 posted on 01/21/2006 4:38:07 PM PST by Always Right
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To: rhema
I paid for this microphone
77 posted on 01/21/2006 4:38:33 PM PST by stylin19a (God does not apply to your alloted time, the hours spent playing golf.)
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To: DeSoto
OOPS, Sorry I meant

THIS

78 posted on 01/21/2006 4:38:38 PM PST by DeSoto (Veni, vidi, velcro ... I came, I saw, I stuck around !)
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To: rhema

The GREATEST President of the Twentieth Century!


79 posted on 01/21/2006 4:39:24 PM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Former SAC Trained Killer)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
Thanks. Keith in Iowa gave the full quote in post 67.

A PRICELESS moment indeed. Did Mondale ever recover?

80 posted on 01/21/2006 4:39:57 PM PST by ohioWfan (PROUD Mom of an Iraq War VET! THANKS, son!!!!)
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