Top 10 Greatest Quips from Ronald Reagan

Human Events ^ | 1/20/05

[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

[petercooper]

bttt

[ohioWfan]

Beautiful post. GREAT man!

Thanks!

[cake_crumb]

"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."

[marblehead17]

ping

[Calvin Locke]

"My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever.

The bombing will begin in five minutes."

Okay, it was a sound check, but certain people got their panties in a wad over it.

[penelopesire]

Thanks for this post!

[Petruchio]

During the Debates . . .

"I was not going to say it. I Really was NOT going to say it! But . . . Here We Go Again!"

[cake_crumb]

"I now concur."

Your dad is a smart man. Many of us want him added to Mt Rushmore

[Perdogg]

That speech he gave at Normady France to mark D-Day in 1984 still brings tears to my eyes. I get teary eyed just reading it.

[Valin]

"They say hard work never hurt anyone, but I say why take the chance."
R. Reagan

[ohioWfan]

Anybody got the exact quote about hoping the doctors were Republicans when he went into surgery?

Mike.........have you seen this? Good stuff!

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

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

Greatest. President. Ever.

God, I miss him so much it hurts.

[apackof2]

Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose."

- Ronald Reagan

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

- Ronald Reagan

[wagglebee]

That will always be one of my favorites.

[cake_crumb]

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

[AndyJackson]

To Richard Allen, who became his first national security advisor, "you probably think that I don't have a strategy for dealing with the Soviet Union. But I do. We win, you loose."

Sounded simplistic and silly to all those Harvard professors, but guess who was right in the end.

[SaveTheChief]

I am going to miss Ronald Reagan for the rest of my life. He was one of a kind.

[MozartLover]

Here ya go!

[Graymatter]

Vintage Reagan. Makes me want to cry. There will never be another like him.
Now I am crying. :(

[scott7278]

Ditto.