The Teflon President

Ronald Wilson Reagan was a great man. Sharp as a new tack and the bearer of a likable personality, he had no real enemies. Those that were against him could find no real reason to discredit him. They would cry, "Reaganomics, Reaganomics!" like it was a bad thing. Sure, Ronnie was spending a lot of money, but Dubya is spending more just to destroy a few countries and get 3000 or so of our finest young heros killed. And there is no end in sight.

Mr. Reagan was spending money to build us up into such a powerful force that no one on Earth would cross or challenge us. How much was he spending? A lot. How much are the lives of 3000 US soldiers worth? More.

Corrine has put together some of Mr. Reagan's quotes.
These are good.

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Really have to love this guy.

*"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

*"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan

*"Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong." - Ronald Reagan

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

*"The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination." - Ronald Reagan

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

*"The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program." -Ronald Reagan

*"I've laid down the law, though, to everyone from now on about anything that happens: no matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting." -Ronald Reagan

*"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first." -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, subsidize it." -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

*"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. - Ronald Reagan

*"If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under." -Ronald Reagan

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I have a few of my own favorite Reagan quotes.
Here they are.

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*Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on 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 what it was once like in the United States when men were free.

*Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

*One legislator accused me of having a nineteenth-century attitude on law and order. That is a totally false charge. I have an eighteenth-century attitude. That is when the Founding Fathers made it clear that the safety of law-abiding citizens should be one of the government's primary concerns.

*I'm convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: A better life for themselves and their children; a minimum of government authority. Very simply, they want to be left alone in peace and safety to take care of the family by earning an honest dollar and putting away some savings. This may not sound too exciting, but there is something magnificent about it. On the farm, on the street corner, in the factory and in the kitchen, millions of us ask nothing more, but certainly nothing less than to live our own lives according to our values--at peace with ourselves, our neighbors and the world.

*Depression is when you’re out of work. A recession is when your neighbor’s out of work. Recovery is when Carter’s out of work.

*If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man.

*You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or right, but I would like to suggest that there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down— up to a man's age-old dream; the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order— or down to the ant heap totalitarianism, and regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course. (Hear that George?)

*Thomas Jefferson made a comment about the Presidency and age. He said that one should not worry about one's exact chronological age in reference to his ability to perform one's task. And ever since he told me that -- [laughter] -- I stopped worrying.

*The only way there could be war is if they start it; we're not going to start a war.(Hear that George?)

*Too much salt isn’t good for you. -Remark about strategic arms limitation talks

*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.

*My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.

*I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.

*Honey, I forgot to duck.