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I remember a story about several economic advisors trying to persuade President Reagan that the government should "do something" about inflation. One said that when Nixon was president, they brought a bunch of businessmen in and Nixon "jawboned" them into agreeing not to raise prices.

"Well," Reagan said, "if you can produce the businessmen, I think that I can get Nixon in here."

You have to memorize your lines. If you want to be spontaneous and sincere, you have to know your lines. You can build on your lines, if you know them, but there is hardly a soul alive who can "wing it."

For public speakers, knowing your lines is the basics, the blocking and tackling of your profession.

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It was a glorious summer morning in '76 when Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Stewart came to the Alamo in San Antonio and he gave a stem winding campaign speech that the huge audience just loved...Reagan and the Alamo. What more can a Texan want?

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO REAGAN

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

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

* 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.

* Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one
end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

* Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll
ever see on this earth!

* 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.

* The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but
doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

* Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards; if
you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

* Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.

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

* When you see all that rhetorical smoke billowing up from the Democrats,
well, ladies and gentlemen, I'd follow the example of their nominee (Bill
Clinton): don't inhale.

* I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if
Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress."

* I've noticed that everybody who is for abortion has already been born.

* 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.

* The other day someone told me the difference between a democracy and a
people's democracy. It's the same difference between a jacket and a
straitjacket.

* History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of
aggression is cheap.

* I hope that when you're my age you'll be able to say, as I have been able to
say: we lived in freedom; we lived lives that were a statement, not an
apology.

- Ronald Reagan

I couldn't vote yet in 1980, but I remember having a fight with my parents because they wouldn't vote for him.

I voted him in the second term of course, and still think that he and Maggie Thatcher were a real saving grace.

May he rest in peace.

Here are some of his greatest quotes:

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO REAGAN

* Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when
you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his. (said
during his campaign for President against Jimmy Carter)

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

* 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.

* Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite
at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

* Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life
we'll ever see on this earth!

* 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.

* The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government
but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

* Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many
rewards; if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

* Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.

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

* When you see all that rhetorical smoke billowing up from the
Democrats, well, ladies and gentlemen, I'd follow the example of their
nominee (Bill Clinton): don't inhale.

* I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked
like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress."

* I've noticed that everybody who is for abortion has already been
born.

* 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.

* The other day someone told me the difference between a democracy and
a people's democracy. It's the same difference between a jacket and a
straitjacket.

* History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price
of aggression is cheap.

* I hope that when you're my age you'll be able to say, as I have been
able to say: we lived in freedom; we lived lives that were a statement,
not an apology.

- Ronald Reagan