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.
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Sur le rôle de l'État fédéral
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My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes. [Ronald Reagan, Plantu dans Le Monde du 14 août 1984., Weekly Saturday address, National Public Radio, 11 août 1984, en]
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Sur la guerre froide
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
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Sur le rôle de l'État fédéral
How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
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Sur le communisme
Traduit par Wikiquote.
Sur le rôle de l'État fédéral
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
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Sur la politique
The ten most dangerous words in the English language are "Hi, I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."
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Sur le rôle de l'État fédéral
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?
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Premier discours d'investiture de Ronald Reagan en tant que président des États-Unis, 20 janvier 1981
Sur le rôle de l'État fédéral
Ronald Reagan: Citations en anglais
“Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.”
As quoted in Sacramento Bee (28 April 1966)
1960s
“Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.”
The New Republic (16 December 1981) ; as cited in War and Conflict Quotations https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1476611483, eds. Michael & Jean Thomsett, McFarland (1997), p. 105
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)
“If you're explaining, you're losing.”
Ronald Reagan
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The Reagan Diaries
Source: The Reagan Diaries
Speech to the House of Commons (8 June 1982) http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1982/60882a.htm
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)
Contexte: From Stettin on the Baltic to Varna on the Black Sea, the regimes planted by totalitarianism have had more than thirty years to establish their legitimacy. But none — not one regime — has yet been able to risk free elections. Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.... If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the ultimate determinant in the struggle that's now going on in the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas, a trial of spiritual resolve, the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish, the ideals to which we are dedicated.
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.”
Address to the annual meeting of the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce (30 March 1961)
Later variant: Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.
California Gubernatorial Inauguration Speech http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/govspeech/01051967a.htm (5 January 1967)
1960s
Contexte: Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
Address to Republican National Convention http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1988/081588b.htm. (15 August 1988)
1980s, Second term of office (1985–1989)
Variante: Facts are stupid things — stubborn things, I should say.
Time (17 May 1976); Reagan adviser Jude Wanniski has indicated http://www.polyconomics.com/searchbase/10-05-99.html that, in 1933, New Dealers as well as much of the world admired Mussolini’s success in avoiding the Great Depression
1970s
This was a signature phrase of Ronald Reagan — he used it dozens of times in public, although he was not the first person known to use it. When Reagan used this phrase, he was usually discussing relations with the Soviet Union and he almost always presented it as a translation of the Russian proverb "doveriai, no proveriai". See also Trust, but verify at Wikipedia.
Misattributed
Variante: Trust, but Verify.
“The simple truth is, 'I don't remember — period.”
responding to a question about when he authorized arms shipments to Iran, testimony to the Tower Commission (2 February 1987)
1980s, Second term of office (1985–1989)
“Liberals fought poverty and poverty won.”
As quoted in The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America (2004) by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, p. 10
Post-presidency (1989–2004)
“I have a feeling that we are doing better in the war [in Vietnam] than the people have been told.”
As quoted in Los Angeles Times (16 October 1967)
1960s
“All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.”
As quoted in Burlington Free Press [Vermont] (15 February 1980)
1980s
Republican National Convention http://65.126.3.86/reagan/html/reagan08_17_92.shtml (17 August 1992)
Post-presidency (1989–2004)
1960s, A Time for Choosing (1964)
I will continue to support every effort to restore that protection including the Hyde-Jepsen respect life bill. I've asked for your all-out commitment, for the mighty power of your prayers, so that together we can convince our fellow countrymen that America should, can, and will preserve God's greatest gift.
Remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Religious Broadcasters (30 January 1984) http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=40394 · YouTube - Remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Religious Broadcasters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Elph9CfsKs
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)
Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine (1961 LP)
1960s
At the University of Southern California (February 6, 1989) when asked his opinion on gun control after the January 17, 1989 Cleveland Elementary School shooting that killed five schoolchildren in Stockton ([Becklund, Laurie, `Saddled Up' Reagan Vows to Speak on Issues, Los Angeles Times, February 7, 1989, 1]).
Post-presidency (1989–2004)
Cited to a Reagan diary entry in 1986, but actually from a parody written by Michael Kinsley in June 2007.
Misattributed
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985), Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation (1983)
Regarding his friend Hollywood astrologer Carroll Righter, in Where's the Rest of Me? (1965)
1960s
Letter to Majority Leader Howard Baker http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/uploads/CPC_Reagan_Letter.pdf, urging an increase in public debt ceiling (16 November 1983)
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)
Speech at 1994 Gala for 83rd Birthday http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/rr40/speeches/gala_speech.htm (3 February 1994)
Post-presidency (1989–2004)
“Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with conflict by peaceful means.”
"Address at Commencement Exercises at Eureka College in Illinois," May 9, 1982. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=42501
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)
White House diary (11 February 1981) as quoted in "Reagan's diaries to be published", BBC News (2 May 2007) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6614077.stm
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)
