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"80 percent of air pollution comes not from chimneys and auto
exhaust pipes, but from plants and trees."
-Reagan, '79
"Facts are stupid things.."
-Reagan, '88
"a faceless mass, waiting for handouts."
-Reagan, '65, describing Medicaid recipients.
"Because Vietnam was not a declared war, the veterans are not even
eligible for the G. I. Bill of Rights with respect to education or
anything."
-Reagan, '80
"Taxes should hurt. I just mailed my own tax return last night and
I am prepared to say `ouch!' as loud as anyone."
-Reagan, '70, after approving California's largest tax increase in
history. Reporters soon pointed out that Reagan didn't pay a cent
on state taxes that year. For all his talk about shrinking
government, California's state budget more than doubled under his
governorship, from $4.6 billion to $10.2 billion.
"I know all the bad things that happened in that war. I was in
uniform for four years myself."
-Reagan, '85, justifying laying a wreath at a Nazi cemetery in
Bitburg. Reagan spent WWII in Hollywood, making films.
"They haven't been there. I have."
-Reagan, '85, justifying his policies on Nicaragua. Ronald Reagan
had never visited Nicaragua.
"They have eliminated the segregation that we once had in our own
country..."
-Reagan, '85, praising the government of P.W. Botha in South
Africa, during the height of Apartheid.
"I cannot recall anything whatsoever about whether I approved an
Israeli sale in advance or whether I approved replenishment of
Israeli stocks around
August of 1985. My answer therefore and the simple truth is, 'I
don't remember, period'"
-Reagan, Feb. '87
"Mr. President, why don't we openly support those 7,000 guerillas
that are in rebellion rather than giving aid through covert
activity?"
"Well, because we want to keep on obeying the laws of our country,
which we are now obeying."
"Doesn't the United States want that government replaced?"
"No, because that would be a violation of the law."
-Reagan, ''87. At the time of the press conference, the U.S. was
giving the indiscriminately murderous Contra guerillas covert aid,
in direct violation of the law. Reagan's lie was so obvious that
members of the press corps laughed loudly and openly at his statements.
"A few months ago, I told the American people I did not trade arms
for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's
true, but the facts and evidence
tell me it is not."
-Reagan, Mar. '87
"If the question comes up at the Tower Board meeting, you might
want to say that you were surprised."
-Reagan, '87, accidentally reading the notes for his stage
directions aloud which told him to act surprised should the issue
of arms-for-hostages come up.
"They are the moral equivalent of America's founding fathers."
-Reagan, '85, referring to the brutal Contra rebels in Nicaragua,
who indiscriminately attacked civilians.
"...an example to the world of the ideals we hold most dear, the
ideals of freedom and independence."
-Reagan, '85, praising the Afghan Mujahaddin. These "freedom
fighters" included prominent leaders of Al Qaeda, such as Osama Bin
Laden, as well as many of the
leaders for the Taliban.
"Hollywood has no blacklist."
-Reagan, '60. FBI records have since shown that this was a lie, and
that Reagan personally informed on several actors, later shown to
be innocent, destroying their careers in the process.
"I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964."
-Reagan, '66
"If there has to be a bloodbath, then let's get it over with."
-Reagan, '69, prior to having national guard soldiers break up a
peaceful protest on the UC Berkeley campus. The protesters were
teargassed and fired upon with buckshot, killing one protester and
wounding at least 128 others.
"a tragic illness."
-Reagan, '67, desribing homosexuality. When two of his aides were
found to be gay that year, he asked for their resignations.
"Maybe the Lord brought down this plague illicit sex is
against the Ten Commandments."
-Reagan, '89. Reagan didn't even mention AIDS until 1987, by which
time it had spread into the heterosexual population and over 25,000
Americans had died.
"What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of
it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times,
and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless
who are homeless, you might say, by choice"
-Reagan, '84.
"For the first time ever, everything is in place for the battle of
Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ. It can't be too long
now. Ezekiel says that fire and brimstone will be rained upon the
enemies of God's people. That must mean that they will be
destroyed by nuclear weapons."
-Reagan, '71
"It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in
the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put
parking strips on it, and be
home by Christmas"
-Reagan, '65
"Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do."
-Reagan '81
"A tree is a tree. How many more do you have to look at?"
-Reagan '66, opposing expansion of Redwood National Park
"I have flown twice over Mt St Helens out on our west coast. I'm
not a scientist and I don't know the figures, but I have a
suspicion that that one little mountain has
probably released more sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere of the
world than has been released in the last ten years of automobile
driving or things of that kind that
people are so concerned about."
-Reagan, '80. At its peak, Mt. St. Helens released 1/40th as much
sulfur dioxide as cars do every day.
"All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored
under a desk."
-Reagan, '80. (In fact, a single nuclear power plant can produce up
to 22,000 cubic feet of of radioactive waste per year.)
"There is today in the United States as much forest as there was
when Washington was at Valley Forge."
-Reagan, '83. The US Forest Service estimated only about 30 percent
of forest lands of 1775 still existed 208 years later.
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