Reaganisms
|
 | Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose. |
 | The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. |
 | The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so. |
 | Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong. |
 | I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress. |
 | The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. |
 | Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. |
 | If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we'll be a nation gone under. |
 | The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program. |
 | 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 |
 | It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first. |
 | 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. |
 | Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. |
 | 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. |
 | Government is not the solution to our problems. Government IS the problem. |