President Reagan Quotes - Page 2

• Again, President Reagan was sort of an amiable presence out at the ranch by the last 6 months of his presidency. He had no effect on national policy at all.

  Paul Begala

  President, Lasts, Months

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• President Reagan is a lot like E.T. He's cute, he's lovable, and he knows nothing about how Americans live.

  Elayne Boosler

  Cute, President, Lovable

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• President Reagan didn't always know what he knew.

  Oliver North

  Knowledge, President, Knows

  Oliver North (2013). “Under Fire: An American Story”, p.24, Post Hill Press

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• Well, it is alarming to have a president [Reagan] who doesn't know what he is doing.

  McGeorge Bundy

  President, Wells, American Politics

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• President Reagan was a master communicator. In this particular speech he did a brilliant job moving between the stately role of U.S. President and a national eulogist. The pain of the event was etched on his face. In 4 short minutes, he addressed five different audiences. He spoke to the collective mourners, families of the fallen, NASA employees, school children, and even took a poke at Russia. He communicated comfort and patriotism within a very short timeframe. That's not easy to do.

  Nancy Duarte

  Pain, Children, Moving

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• If you go back and look at President Reagan's speeches, they bring you to tears almost.

  Lawrence Bender

  Tears, President, Looks

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• Did you see where President Reagan finally got a hearing aid? People have been telling him to get one for years, but he couldn't hear them.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Years, People

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• I have said there are three principles that should be followed. One, we should maintain the "one China" policy that every American president has articulated, including President Reagan. Secondly, we should make clear that we want a peaceful resolution. And three, Taiwan should not challenge that arrangement in a way that will provoke a conflict. Those are three perfectly clear principles. I haven't used any of the other slogans.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Challenges, Peaceful, President

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• President Reagan always gave the credit to the American people and American ideals. He treated his job as a valuable temporary loan from the American people, a loan that should be respected and returned with dutiful appreciation.

  Bill Jenkins

  Appreciation, Jobs, People

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• Both President Kennedy and President Reagan were roundly criticized by parts of the foreign policy establishment that felt they were being weak by engaging our adversaries. So some of it is built into a political lexicon that makes you sound tougher if you don't talk to somebody, and rather, very loudly, wield a big stick.

  Barack Obama

  Political, President, Sound

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• In 1985, a group of mujahedeen came to Washington and was greeted by President Reagan, who called them "freedom fighters." These people, by the way, don't represent Islam in any formal sense. They're not imams or sheiks. They are self-appointed warriors for Islam.

  Edward Said

  Warrior, Self, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• What do I "think" of President Reagan? The best answer to give would be: I don't think of him. And the more I see, the less I think.

  Ayn Rand

  Thinking, Giving, President

  Ayn Rand (1990). “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”, p.151, Penguin

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• [Television executives] are afraid to advertise condoms that could save lives, but do not blush about telecasting a National Geographic special on President Reagan's pelvic plumbing.

  Martin Nolan

  Special, President, Television

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• It is absolutely right that President Reagan considers SDI and thank goodness people considered nuclear research before the last war.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, People, President

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• President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience.

  William Safire

  Empathy, President, Politician

  1990 LanguageMaven Strikes Again.

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• President Obama has lowered taxes more than he has raised them, and they are today lower than they were in President Reagan's time. But you don't hear conservatives crowing about that.

  Eric Alterman

  President, Today, Taxes

  "Think Again: Conservatives Prefer Reagan Fantasies to Reality (And So Did Reagan)" by Eric Alterman, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.

  Ted Cruz

  People, President, Together

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• Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force.

  Eric Alterman

  Wings, President, Facts

  "Think Again: Conservatives Prefer Reagan Fantasies to Reality (And So Did Reagan)" by Eric Alterman, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• President Reagan achieved such successes because when you sat in a room with him, there could be over 1,000 people in the room, yet you felt like there was only the two of you, and his wonderful wit would put you at ease. That was a tremendous gift.

  Elton Gallegly

  Two, People, President

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• Having worked for him in the nuclear weapons policy business, I can tell you that President Reagan was committed to assuring the effectiveness of our nuclear deterrent.

  Frank Gaffney

  Effectiveness, President, Nuclear

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• Any satirist writing a futuristic novel who had imagined a President Reagan during the Eisenhower years would have been accused of perpetrating a piece of crude, contemptible, adolescent, anti-American wickedness, when, in fact, he would have succeeded, as prophetic sentry, where Orwell failed.

  Philip Roth

  Writing, Years, President

  Philip Roth, George John Searles (1992). “Conversations with Philip Roth”, p.178, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, "I am not a crook." Jimmy Carter says, "I have lusted after women in my heart." President Reagan says, "I have just taken a urinalysis test, and I am not on dope."

  Art Buchwald

  Taken, Writing, Heart

  "TIME" Magazine, September 29, 1986.

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• President Reagan fueled the spirit of America. His smile, his optimism, his total belief in the ultimate triumph of democracy and freedom, and his willingness to act on that belief, helped end the Cold War and usher in a new and brighter phase of history.

  Colin Powell

  War, America, Optimism

  "Quotes: A Nation Reacts", www.foxnews.com. June 6, 2004.

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• To be sure, President Clinton reached an accord called "The Agreement" in 1994 that purports to address some of President Reagan's concerns.

  Frank Gaffney

  Agreement, President, Addresses

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• President Reagan, Jack Kemp and other advocates of supply-side economics understood that pro-growth tax, spending and economic policies were essential to America's long-term economic and fiscal health.

  Bob Beauprez

  America, Long, Growth

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