“Please tell me you're just feeling tired
cause if it's more than that I feel that I might break”
Chris Carrabba (1975) American musician
Again I Go Unnoticed
Speaking to surgeons as he entered the operating room following a 1981 assassination attempt. http://www.rd.com/content/openContent.do?contentId=26804&pageIndex=1 To which Dr. Joseph Giordano replied, "We're all Republicans today." An alternative version has Reagan saying "Please tell me you're Republicans." (30 March 1981) <br class="br">1980s, First term of office (1981–1985) <br class="br">Variant: I hope you're all Republican. <br class="br">Source: Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches
“Please tell me you're just feeling tired
cause if it's more than that I feel that I might break”
Chris Carrabba (1975) American musician
Again I Go Unnoticed
“I hope you're all Republican.”
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
Speaking to surgeons as he entered the operating room following a 1981 assassination attempt. http://www.rd.com/content/openContent.do?contentId=26804&pageIndex=1 To which Dr. Joseph Giordano replied, "We're all Republicans today." An alternative version has Reagan saying "Please tell me you're Republicans." (30 March 1981) <br class="br">1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)
“You wake me up early in the morning to tell me that I'm right? Please wait until I'm wrong.”
John Von Neumann (1903–1957) Hungarian-American mathematician and polymath
As quoted by Jacob Bronowski in The Ascent of Man TV series
Nicole Hollander (1939) Cartoonist
Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 86
“Republican Party, you're a lie factory, that's all you do.”
Alan Grayson (1958) American politician
The Ed Show, October 1, 2009, MSNBC, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/33129724#33129724. <br class="br">2009, Regarding the Republican Party
“What motivates you, then? Please don’t tell me altruism. I am not quite so gullible as that.”
Michael Bishop (1945) American writer
Source: A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975), Chapter 2, “Covenant: Derringer and Dascra” (p. 41)