Quotes

• "It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you." ~Dick Cheney

• "Government is not the solution to our problems, government is the problem." ~Ronald Reagan

• "My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right." ~Barry Goldwater's speech to the Republican National Convention; June 16, 1964

• "The other day, someone told me the difference between a democracy and a people's democracy. It's the same difference between a jacket and a straitjacket." ~Ronald Reagan

• "Liberals measure compassion by how many people are given welfare; conservatives measure compassion by how many people no longer need it." ~Rush Limbaugh

• "If God had been a liberal there wouldn't have been ten commandments, there would have been ten suggestions." ~Malcolm Bradbury

• "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." ~Ronald Reagan

• "Yes, the president should resign. He has lied to the American people, time and time again, and betrayed their trust. Since he has admitted guilt, there is no reason to put the American people through an impeachment. He will serve absolutely no purpose in finishing out his term the only possible solution is for the president to save some dignity and resign." ~From the 12th Congressional District Hopeful William Jefferson Clinton during the Nixon investigations

• "What I’d really like is to go down in history as the President who made Americans believe in themselves again." ~Ronald Reagan

• "The only way liberals win elections is by pretending they're not liberals." ~Rush Limbaugh

• "A presidency can shape an era - and it can change our lives. A successful presidency can give meaning to an age." ~George Bush

• "Conservatism favors the restraint of government. A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them." ~P.J. O'Rourke

• "Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" ~Ronald Reagan

• "We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans..." ~Bill Clinton on March 11, 1993 from the USA Today

• "It is not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it work - work with us, not over us; stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it." ~Ronald Reagan

• "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet." ~Al Gore

• "Please tell me you're Republicans." ~Ronald Reagan to his surgeons as he entered the operating room, March 30, 1981

• "You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say." ~Bill Clinton on May 29, 1993

• "When you see all that rhetorical smoke billowing up from the Democrats, well ladies and gentleman, I'd follow the example of their nominee; don't inhale." ~Ronald Reagan at the 1992 National Convention

• "When I was in England I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it. I didn't inhale." ~Bill Clinton on March 30, 1992 from The New York Times

• "Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence." ~Ronald Reagan

• "This fellow they've nominated claims he's the new Thomas Jefferson. Well, let me tell you something. I knew Thomas Jefferson. He was a friend of mine. And governor, you're no Thomas Jefferson." ~Ronald Reagan at the 1992 National Convention

• "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is." ~Bill Clinton from his grand jury testimony

• "A zebra does not change its spots." ~Al Gore
  
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