Dutch
06-05-2004, 11:30 PM
Some good ones and funny ones.
Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.
-Attributed
This fellow they've nominated claims he's the new Thomas Jefferson. Well let me tell you something; I knew Thomas Jefferson. He was a friend of mine and Governor... You're no Thomas Jefferson!
Republican National Convention, 1992
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, subsidise it
-Ronald Reagan
"[Qaddafi] counted on America to be passive. He counted wrong."
-During Bombing of Tripoli with FB-111 Fighter Bomber aircraft
I hope you're all Republicans.
To surgeons as he entered the operating room, March 30, 1981
It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history.... [It is] the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism- Leninism on the ash heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.
Speech to Britain's Parliament, June, 1982
The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant them mercy on this beachhead or the next. It was the deep knowledge -- and pray God we have not lost it -- that there is a profound moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest.
Normandy, France, June 6, 1984.
I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
-Ronald Reagan
We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them -- this morning, as they prepared for their journey, and waved good-bye, and "slipped the surly bonds of earth" to "touch the face of God."
Speech about the Challenger disaster, January 28, 1986
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
Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
Speech near the Berlin Wall, 1987
My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing will begin in five minutes.
- During radio microphone test
We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.
The poet called Miss Liberty's torch, "the lamp beside the golden door." Well, that was the entrance to America, and it still is. And now you really know why we're here tonight.
The glistening hope of that lamp is still ours. Every promise every opportunity is still golden in this land. And through that golden door our children can walk into tomorrow with the knowledge that no one can be denied the promise that is America.
Her heart is full; her torch is still golden, her future bright. She has arms big enough to comfort and strong enough to support, for the strength in her arms is the strength of her people. She will carry on in the eighties unafraid, unashamed, and unsurpassed.
In this springtime of hope, some lights seem eternal; America's is.
RNC speech, August 23, 1984
Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.
-Attributed
This fellow they've nominated claims he's the new Thomas Jefferson. Well let me tell you something; I knew Thomas Jefferson. He was a friend of mine and Governor... You're no Thomas Jefferson!
Republican National Convention, 1992
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, subsidise it
-Ronald Reagan
"[Qaddafi] counted on America to be passive. He counted wrong."
-During Bombing of Tripoli with FB-111 Fighter Bomber aircraft
I hope you're all Republicans.
To surgeons as he entered the operating room, March 30, 1981
It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history.... [It is] the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism- Leninism on the ash heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.
Speech to Britain's Parliament, June, 1982
The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant them mercy on this beachhead or the next. It was the deep knowledge -- and pray God we have not lost it -- that there is a profound moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest.
Normandy, France, June 6, 1984.
I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
-Ronald Reagan
We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them -- this morning, as they prepared for their journey, and waved good-bye, and "slipped the surly bonds of earth" to "touch the face of God."
Speech about the Challenger disaster, January 28, 1986
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
Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
Speech near the Berlin Wall, 1987
My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing will begin in five minutes.
- During radio microphone test
We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.
The poet called Miss Liberty's torch, "the lamp beside the golden door." Well, that was the entrance to America, and it still is. And now you really know why we're here tonight.
The glistening hope of that lamp is still ours. Every promise every opportunity is still golden in this land. And through that golden door our children can walk into tomorrow with the knowledge that no one can be denied the promise that is America.
Her heart is full; her torch is still golden, her future bright. She has arms big enough to comfort and strong enough to support, for the strength in her arms is the strength of her people. She will carry on in the eighties unafraid, unashamed, and unsurpassed.
In this springtime of hope, some lights seem eternal; America's is.
RNC speech, August 23, 1984