God I miss that man!

[AUTiger1]

Just some quotes for some to read.  This country sure could use another Reagan.  Love him or hate him, you have to admit, those were some good times.

'Here's my strategy on the Cold War:
We win, they lose.'- Ronald Reagan

'The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'-Ronald Reagan


'The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.'  Ronald Reagan


'Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S.  was too strong.'- Ronald Reagan


'I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.'  - Ronald Reagan


'The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.' - Ronald Reagan


'Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.' - Ronald Reagan

'The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program.'  Ronald Reagan


'It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.' - Ronald Reagan


'Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it' - Ronald Reagan


'Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed, there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book.' - Ronald Reagan


'No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.'- Ronald Reagan


'If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.'- Ronald Reagan

[Tarheel]

Great quotes from a great man.


Agree or disagree with him yourself (and, no, I didn't always agree with him), there's another great man who just passed away that I'll miss too, Jack Kemp; I think my own party has forgotten many of the lessons that he tried to teach us:


Democracy without morality is impossible.
Jack Kemp

Every time in this century we've lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and risk-taking in this economy, revenues went up, not down.
Jack Kemp

He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
Jack Kemp

There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
Jack Kemp

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
Jack Kemp

There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
Jack Kemp

When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
Jack Kemp

Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
Jack Kemp

Pro football gave me a good perspective. When I entered the political arena, I had already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded, and hung in effigy

Jack Kemp

Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

Jack Kemp

Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be tested again and again in the fiery furnace of history.

Jack Kemp

A distinction should be made that [American] football is democratic capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist.

Jack Kemp

The supply-side claim is not a claim. It is empirically true and historically convincing that with lower rates of taxation on labor and capital, the factors of production, you'll get a bigger economy.

Jack Kemp


Requiescat in pace to both Reagan and Kemp.