Can't touch this!!!!! Excellent Post...
Posted on 11/11/2006 10:23:52 PM PST by Vinny
"The Difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending, and they want to spend government checks"(refering to the Democrats)
"Too many people, especially in government, feel that the nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program."
"You might be weary of me sounding the same alarms. you might think, we have heard all this before, but somehow we muddled through. Well, this is like the window-washer who fell from the Empire State building. When he passed the twentieth floor, he said, "so far, so good.""
"When those who are governed do too little, those who govern can-and often will- do too much."
"The credibility gap is so great in Washington they told us the truth the other day hoping we wouldn't believe it."
"I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a fat cat and a Democratic contributor of the same amount is a public-spirited philanthropist."
"Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them."
"To blame the military for war makes about as much sense as suggesting that we get rid of cancer by getting rid of doctors."
"The taxpayer, that's someone who works for the federal gov't but doesn't have to take a civil service examination."
(of the flower-children of the late 60's)" Their signs said make love, not war, but they didn't look like they could do either."
(refering to anti-war protestors)"Those young people [demand] the right to send blood to the enemy in Vietnam. I think they should be allowed to do that - providing they send it in the original container."
(Reagan on Bobby Kennedy)"Bobby Kennedy is so concerned about poverty because he didn't have any as a kid."
" I was a near-hopeless hemophiliac liberal."
"The government in Washington is spending some 7 million dollars every minute I talk to you. There's no connection between my talking and their spending, and if they'll stop spending, I'll stop talking." - May 1976
"bureaucrats favor cutting red tape - lengthwise."
(Reagan told supporters that he promised tax "increases" when he meant to say "decreases". He explained...) "I've been talking about Carter so long that I make mistakes like he does."
"Carter was supposed to go on "60 minutes" to talk about his accomplishments, but that left him 59 minutes to fill."
"Depression is when your out of work. A recession is when your neighbor's out of work. Recovery is when Carter's out of work."
(referring to Carter's economic policies)"He said he'd do something about unemployment. He did. In April, 825,000 Americans lost their jobs."
"the current tax code is a daily mugging."
"You know, I think the best possible social program is a job."
" The nine most terrifying words in the English language are," i'm from the gov't and I'm here to help you.""
"[According to the Democrats,] 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."
"THere's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: as gov't expands, liberty contracts."
" Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the Democrats believe every day is April 15,"
" 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."
"What are the four things wrong with the Soviet agriculture? Spring, Summer, autumn, and winter."
"A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist."
(While visiting the Canadien parliament, Reagan commented on the demonstrators who protested his visit)"[They] must have been imported to make me mfeel at home."
" Economists are people who see something that works in practice and wonder if it would work in theory."
Soon after Reagan was awoke, presidential aide Lyn Nofziger reported to Reagan,"you'll be happy to know that the gov't is running normally." Reagan replied w/o hesitation, "What makes you think I'd be happy about that."
(After watching President Bill Clinton's State of the Union address, former President Reagsn said at a republican gala): "I'm reminded of the old adage that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Only in this case, it's not flattery, but grand larceny: the intellectual theft of ideas that you and I recognize as our own. Speech delivery counts for little on the world stage unless you have convictions, and, yes, the vision to see beyond the front row seats."
Again Reagan said, " when you see all that rhetorical smoke billowing up from the Democrats, well, ladies nd gentlemen, I'd follow the example of their nominee; don't inhale."
"You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done."
-Ronald Reagan
October 27, 1964
Yes, Vinny, I love that one too. It's on my homepage ;o)
Can't touch this!!!!! Excellent Post...
This is so good to bring up Reagan's wit and fantastic grasp of the political world. The first I met him was in 1963 in Vallejo, Calif. when he came to the county fairgrounds pavillion and delivered a speech for Barry Goldwater, who was running against Lyndon B. Johnson.
He was ever so much the true gentleman....honest, sincere, optimistic and of course had a fantastic sense of humor.
By the way, the speech he gave that night in 1963 is the same speech he used a few more times that propelled him into the governorship of Calif. for two terms and then put him on the national scene. We are all gratefull for his service and deep in our hearts hope there is another like him to lead our Conservatives. When we get away from our conservative values, we lose elections, pure and simple. President Reagan proved that.
Mahalo
This is so good to bring up Reagan's wit and fantastic grasp of the political world. The first I met him was in 1963 in Vallejo, Calif. when he came to the county fairgrounds pavillion and delivered a speech for Barry Goldwater, who was running against Lyndon B. Johnson.
He was ever so much the true gentleman....honest, sincere, optimistic and of course had a fantastic sense of humor.
By the way, the speech he gave that night in 1963 is the same speech he used a few more times that propelled him into the governorship of Calif. for two terms and then put him on the national scene. We are all gratefull for his service and deep in our hearts hope there is another like him to lead our Conservatives. When we get away from our conservative values, we lose elections, pure and simple. President Reagan proved that.
Mahalo
Funny you should post this--I was just looking up Winston Churchill quotes not a minute before. One that applies to conservatives' current situation:
"Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning."
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/w/winstonchu156920.html
I love him too.
My favorite Reagan story was this: He was in a limo after a speech, driving past a long-haired, hippie-type protester, dressed like a bum. The hippie was carrying a protest sign saying, "MAKE LOVE, NOT WAR".
When Reagan saw the protester, he stated,
"Looking at him, I'd be willing to bet he can't do either".
My favorite was: "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." -1984 presidential debate with Walter Mondale
Sorry about getting the year wrong in my post. The speech President Reagan gave in behalf of Barry Goldwater in Vallejo, Ca. was in 1964, not 1963 as I had stated.
Mahalo
I love this post. Thanks so much for sharing. It brings to mind such fond memories.
I don't remember the exact quote, but he said something like I don't worry about the deficit, it is big enough to take care of itself.
Ya me too. I'm 33 now. My formative teen years were dominated by Reagan as President. I grew up thinking America is Conservative and Republicans are the regular people.
Apology accepted and thanks for the heads-up.
In January 1982, President Ronald Reagan approved a CIA plan to sabotage the economy of the Soviet Union through covert transfers of technology that contained hidden malfunctions, including software that later triggered a huge explosion in a Siberian natural gas pipeline, according to a new memoir by a Reagan White House official.The book mentioned in the article is a good one.
Me too. It was the first election I was able to vote in also. I too voted for him twice.
That was so funny!
If Reagan's reading this board up in Heaven, he should know that he's genuinely missed down here.
"You know damn well that Reagan is looking down at us and saying: "Well, there they (the democrats) go again.""
Reagan is looking down at us saying: "F'ing Ross Perot".
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