Reagan-ism's

[madokie]

God rest his soul.



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 Commandment's 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



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

- 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

[leftofthedial]

1. of which, he wrote exactly zero

I like his later material, which he DID create himself.

Like, "Unnnggggghhh! I just crapped myself. Who are you?"

[punpirate]

4. Quite true...

... many people aren't aware that many of his seemingly spontaneous one-liners came from a joke writer he kept on retainer.

[bbinacan]

10. If you've seen someone with

Alzheimers, you'll see your comment was insensitive(at best).

[leftofthedial]

12. insensitive? ME?

and I'm not sorry

he could not possibly have crapped himself a brazilianth as much as his reign crapped on the world

he could not possibly have suffered enough, no matter which disease of his I would have caricatured, outraging some DUer or another

he had to die of something

Fuck him

[punpirate]

2. Sounded good to a lot of people...

... too bad most of it isn't true. For someone who hated government as much as he did, he went to extraordinary ends to be the one to run it, and to run it into the ground for the benefit of the elite.

[Democrats_win]

3. Moron raygun also said, "You can tell the character of a man by the way he

eats jelly beans." His statements meant nothing.

[Wilms]

5. Don't forget...

We commence bombing the Soviets in 5 minutes

Facts are stupid things

We didn't trade arms for hostages

We (his 1980 campaign) were try to have the hostages freed. (Think about that one.)


(All are sans quote marks cause it's off the top of my head)

[Kierkegaard]

6. And...

"Everybody who can remember what they were doing on Aug. 8, 1985...uh, well...change my Huggies. Wheel of Fortune comes on in 10 minutes!"

[BrotherBuzz]

7. "A tree is a tree. How many more do you have to look at?"

1966, opposing expansion of Redwood National Park as governor of California. I think it later morphed into "If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.". Man, I tried to warn the nation about that ass but she still elected him.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

8. "get off my goddamn back"

per wapo 12/6/86. he said this to nancy when nancy was nagging him about firing don regan

[pretzel4gore]

9. considering the old goat lived 90 years

you'd think he'd come up with something better then this.....he never missed a meal, never suffered a moment's hardship, and it showed (apologies to Ron jr; his dad should have remained a socialist, it would have profited him alot to stand up to the bullies)

[tjwash]

11. Ah, sweet memories...

...how could I ever forget Reagan. I changed my party affiliation from Republican to Independent because of Nixon, but Reagan caused me to switch all the way to Democrat.

Never looked back...

[omega minimo]

13. There's no rest for the soul where he is

All this was inspired by the principle--which is quite true in itself--that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods.

It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.

Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation.

For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying. These people know only too well how to use falsehood for the basest purposes.

-Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, chapter X "Why The Second Reich Collapsed"