"You've got to be careful quoting Reagan... when you quote him accurately it's called mudslinging" [View All]

Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power.
Benito Mussolini.

Free enterprise is a rough and competitive game. It is a hell of a lot better than a government monoploy.
Ronald Reagan
Source:Speech Dec 8, 1972

How can you govern if you don’t believe in government? YOU CAN’T!!
Thom Hartmann http://www.thomhartmann.com

You've got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because when you quote him accurately it's called mudslinging.
Walter Mondale

"Success" is not No Violence. Success is a level of violence where people feel comfortable going about their daily lives... and that’s what we’re trying to achieve.
GWBushco. May, 2007

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Politics, Any Way You Slice It
Words: Jesse Ashlock
http://www.res.com/magazine/articles/politicsanywayyousliceit_2004-09-27.html

One of the more revealing anecdotes about modern political oratory comes from The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, neurologist Oliver Sachs' 1987 collection of tales from the frontlines of clinical psychology. Sachs recalls watching a speech by the late President Reagan with patients in an aphasia ward and being astonished when they roared with laughter. Why did they laugh at Reagan? Aphasiacs compensate for their inability to comprehend language by becoming highly attuned to subtleties of diction and manner -- so much so, Sachs concluded, that "one cannot lie to an aphasiac." Though they could not understand the president's speech -- because they could not understand it -- they could read all "the grimaces, the histrionisms, the false gestures and, above all, the false tones and cadences of the voice." Their natural response to such grotesquerie was hilarity.


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Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of a opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
Reagan to aide Stuart Spencer, 1966

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

If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with.
Ronald Reagan, April 7th, 1970
Governor of California & soon-to-be US President, on his attitude towards student civil rights activists, dissenters, & Vietnam War protestors

One problem that we've had, even in the best of times, is the people sleeping on the grates, the homeless who are homeless, you might say, by choice.
Reagan 1/31/84

For 18 months now, we have had under way a secret diplomatic initiative to Iran. That initative was undertaken for the simplest and best reasons: to renew a relationship with the nation of Iran; to bring a honorable end to the bloody six-year war between Iran and Iraq; to eliminate state-spondored terrorism and subversion, and to effect the safe return of all hostages... Durning the course of our secret discussions, I authorized the transfer of small amounts of defensive weapons and spare parts for defensive systems to Iran....These modest deliveries, taken together could easily fit into a single cargo plane.... We did not--repeat--did not trade weapons or anything else for hostages, nor will we.
Reagan Nov 14, 1986
Speech to Nation

Well, I learned a lot. You'd be suprised. They're all individual countries.
Reagan talking to reporters upon his return from Latin American. 12/4/1982

I believe that the future is far nearer than most of us would dare hope.
Reagan 9/24/84

Money trumps peace sometimes, heheheh heheh.
George Bush 2007