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RONALD WILSON REAGAN, GREAT
COMMUNICATOR 1. "You can tell a
lot about a fellow's character, if a fellow just picks out one color
(of jellybeans) or grabs a handful." (Jan. 13, 1981) 2. "If it wasn't for women, us men would
still be walking around in skin suits carrying clubs." (Aug. 3,
1983) 3. "The system is
still where it was with regard to
the...uh...the...uh...the...uh...the...uh...the progressivity." (Oct.
7, 1984) 4. "Just think how
easy (Gorbachev's) task and mine might be if suddenly there was a
threat to this world from some other species from another planet.
We would find out once and for all that we really are all human beings
here on this Earth together." (Dec. 4, 1985) 5. "I wonder how
long it will be before the children of America turn to their parents
and say 'Gee, Mom and Dad, can I borrow the spaceship tonight?'"
(Oct. 14, 1988) RONALD WILSON
REAGAN, FOREIGN POLICY MASTERMIND 1. "If our planes
are shot down, yes, they'd wake me up right away. If the other
fellows were shot down, why wake me up?" (Aug. 19, 1981) 2. "(The Falklands
War) is a dispute over the sovereignty of that little ice-cold bunch of
land down there." (April 30, 1982) 3. "Well, I learned
a lot in Latin America. You'd be surprised. They're all
individual countries." (Dec. 4, 1982) 4. "The Soviet Union
is the focus of evil in the modern world...it is an evil empire." (Mar.
8, 1983) 5. "If Congress
rejects contra aid, a tidal
wave of refugees will begin swarming into out country. This time
they'll be 'feet people' instead of 'boat people'." (June 20,
1983) RONALD WILSON
REAGAN, COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATIVE 1. "In this time of
great unemployment, I can't help noticing that Sunday's paper had 24
full pages of employers looking for employees." (Jan. 19, 1982) 2. "Has anyone
stopped to consider that the best way to balance the federal budget is
not by taxing people into the poorhouse and it's not by cutting
spending to the bone, but by all of us simply trying to live up to the
Ten Commandments?" (Jan. 31, 1983) 3. "We think there
is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline
in profit over recent years." (April 26, 1983) 4. "You know, if I
listened to (Dukakis) long enough, I would be convinced that we're in
an economic downturn, and that people are homeless, and people are
going without food and medical attention, and that we've got to do
something about the unemployed." (June 8, 1988) 5. "Sometimes I wonder if black leaders really want what they say they want. They're dfoing very well leading organizations based on keeping alive the feeling that they're victims of prejudice." (Jan. 15, 1989) RONALD WILSON
REAGAN, TIRELESS ADVOCATE FOR LASTING PEACE 1. "Although there
is no recall for missiles fired from silos, those that are carried in
bombers, those that are carried in ships of one kind or another, or
submersibles, can be recalled if there has been a mistake." (May
13, 1982) 2. "Nuclear war
would be the greatest tragedy, I think, ever experienced by mankind in
the history of mankind." (Mar. 6, 1985) 3. "Today there are
very few alive that remember even the (Second World) war, and certainly
none of the, who were adults and participating in any way." (Mar. 21,
1985) 4. "The contras are the moral equivalent of
our Founding Fathers." (Mar. 3, 1986) 5. "Our defense spending increases and tax cuts were in no way responsible for the deficit. The blame lies with an iron triangle of Democratic congressmen, special interest lobbyists, and liberal journalists." (Dec. 13, 1988) RONALD WILSON REAGAN, MASTER STORYTELLER 1. "Sometimes I look
out there at Pennsylvania Avenue and see people bustling along, and it
suddenly dawns on me that probably never again can I just say, 'Hey,
I'm going down to the drugstore to look at the magazines'." (Dec.
9, 1982) 2. "I sometimes look
out the window at Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder what it would be like
to be able to just walk down the street to the corner drugstore and
look at the magazines. I can't do that anymore." (Dec. 16,
1982) 3. "I sometimes look
out of the window at Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder just what it would
be like to be able to walk down the street to the corner drugstore and
look at the magazines. I can't do that anymore." (Dec. 18,
1982) 4. "Sometimes I look
out the window at Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder what it would be like
to just turn to my wife and say, 'Honey, I'm going down to the corner
drugstore to look at magazines.' I can't do that anymore."
(Jan. 13, 1983) 5. "You find yourself remembering what ti was like when on the spur of the moment you could just yell to your wife that you were going down to the drugstore and get a magazine. You can't do that anymore." (Jan. 27, 1984) |
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