Favorite Reagan quotes: Post em here!

[mzmolly]

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

"Facts are stupid things." – at the 1988 Republican National Convention

Inspired by the Randi Rhodes show today ;)

[Sir Craig]

1. "A tree's a tree..."

"...how many more do you need to look at?"

[Zero Gravitas]

2. "well..."

[Les BOOGIE]

3. I don't recall.....drool.....drool n/t

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[BlackVelvetElvis]

4. I'm listening today

I liked the one where Reagan says "why should we fund intellectual curiosity?".
Let's see, here's one retort: to cure disease?!

[kskiska]

5. The Russians have no word for "freedom." n/t

[Octafish]

6. Win one for the Gippet.

Pretty much scrubbed from GOOGLE, I notice. Paul Slansky noted it in his "The Clothes Have No Emperor."

[mark0rama]

7. The United States Has much to offer the Third World War.

About Third World countries, not WWIII, but bad enough either way!

[Cocoa]

8. "you might want to say that you were surprised"

the only professional actor president accidentally reads his stage directions, at an Iran-Contra hearing.

http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh061004.shtml

“If the question comes up at the Tower Board meeting, you might want to say that you were surprised.”



Note: he was addressing Tower himself. d'oh!

[mzmolly]

9. Whoops!!!

:P

[AlCzervik]

10. This sounds like * but it Reagan

There is today in the United States as much forest as there was when Washington was at Valley Forge.
- Ronald Reagan

[AlCzervik]

11. Here's a good one allhatnocattle

"Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal." Ronald Reagan, 1976, on his failed campaign for the Republican nomination. (Moron.)