Ron Reagan Quotes

• It's just that I have this funny objection to torturing small animals no matter how scrumptious their body parts might be. ... Our food industries are equal opportunity abusers: cows, chickens, pigs, and a special mention to those little calves who for their short, miserable lives are locked into crates too small to allow movement just so we can eat veal.

  Ron Reagan

  Animal, Opportunity, Pigs

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• I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.

  Ron Reagan

  Party, Racist, Homophobes

  "Ron Reagan calls Iraq war unnecessary and optional". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.cnn.com. June 24, 2004.

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• Religion may indeed inspire acts of great kindness and courage. But it also trains people to believe things for which there is no evidence. This makes religion's intrusion into the political sphere all the more troubling.

  Ron Reagan

  Kindness, Believe, People

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• People who believe they are acting with the mandate of God, who see others who don't share their beliefs as inferior in the eyes of God, make dangerous leaders. Just ask Osama Bin Laden.

  Ron Reagan

  Believe, Eye, People

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• I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

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  Buddhist, Kindness, Teaching

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• We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

  Ron Reagan

  Children, Cat, Gambling

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• You know, people get frustrated because their loved ones who have Alzheimer's, oh, he doesn't recognize me anymore, how can I recognize this person, if they don't recognize me? They're not the same person. Well, they are the same person, but they've got a brain disease. And it's not their fault they've got this disease.

  Ron Reagan

  Alzheimer's, People, Frustrated

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• When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly.

  Ron Reagan

  War, Littles, Citing

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• We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.

  Ron Reagan

  Kindness, Ignorance, Compassion

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. July 27, 2004.

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• Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

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  Ignorance, Leader, Research

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• I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.

  Ron Reagan

  Airplane, Airline Business, Flying

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• The Bush people have no right to speak for my father, particularly because of the position he's in now (Alzheimer's Syndrome). Yes, some of the current policies are an extension of the '80s. But the overall thrust of this administration is not my father's - these people are overly reaching, overly aggressive, overly secretive, and just plain corrupt. I don't trust these people.

  Ron Reagan

  Father, Alzheimer's, People

  "Reagan blasts Bush". Interview with David Talbot, www.salon.com. April 15, 2003.

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• I've never joined any political party and have no plans to do so. I'm fully independent.

  Ron Reagan

  Party, Independent, Political

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• He never stopped wanting to save the world.

  Ron Reagan

  Fathers Day, Dad, World

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• You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization.

  Ron Reagan

  Cells, Research, Consistent

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 23, 2004.

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• I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know?

  Ron Reagan

  Mean, Iraq, Floating

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 23, 2004.

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• If you are going to call yourself a Christian - and I don't - then you have to ask yourself a fundamental question, and that is: Whom would Jesus torture? Whom would Jesus drag around on a dog's leash? How can Christians tolerate it? It is unconscionable. It has put our young men and women who are over there, fighting a war that they should not have been asked to fight - it has put them in greater danger.

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  Christian, Dog, Jesus

  "The Way We Live Now: 6-27-04: Questions for Ronald P. Reagan". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. June 27, 2004.

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• He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that's how it turned out.

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  Mother, Morning, Lasts

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. June 23, 2004.

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• I'm aware that most people who meet me for the first time think of me in a certain way because of who my father is. That just comes with the territory. But that's been that way ever since I was a little kid as long as I can remember. I grew up that way.

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  Father, Kids, Thinking

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• My father never felt the need to wrap himself in anybody's mantle. He never felt the need to pretend to be anybody else. This is their administration. This is their war. If they can't stand on their own two feet, well, they're no Ronald Reagans, that's for sure.

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  Father, War, Two

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• Neither of my parents would ever stand in the way of any of their children speaking their minds.

  Ron Reagan

  Children, Talking, Parent

  "CNN Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 23, 2004.

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• The big elephant sitting in the corner is that George W. Bush is simply unqualified for the job. What's his accomplishment? That he's no longer an obnoxious drunk?

  Ron Reagan

  Jobs, Elephants, Drunk

  "Reagan Blasts Bush". Interview with David Talbot, www.salon.com. April 14, 2003.

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• What do you say to your sister who poses in the nude? It's not like you are really itching to see photographs of your sister naked. I mean, it's just something that is not too exciting.

  Ron Reagan

  Mean, Naked, Like You

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• My father felt that children should make their own way.

  Ron Reagan

  Children, Father, Way

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• My father didn't know George W. Bush from Adam.

  Ron Reagan

  Father, Adam, Knows

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