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re: What's your favorite Reagan quote?
Posted on 3/5/18 at 1:58 pm to MrCarton
Posted on 3/5/18 at 1:58 pm to MrCarton
quote:I don't know a single conservative, me included, who believes owning a machine gun is needed for home defense or for hunting.
“I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen for sporting, for hunting and so forth, or for home defense,” he said. “But I do believe that an AK-47, a machine gun, is not a sporting weapon or needed for defense of a home.”
Conservative hero.
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Posted on 3/5/18 at 1:58 pm to Pdubntrub
quote:
Frick him, any idea how many lives this man destroyed over this idiotic logic.
You have a point. No telling how many people in these great 57 states have been led astray by his misstatements.
Posted on 3/5/18 at 2:01 pm to icheerforgeorgia
Posted on 3/5/18 at 2:03 pm to icheerforgeorgia
When asked if he "felt" any blame for the way things are, he replied "of course, I used to be a democrat!"
Second favorite...
"It isn't that my liberal friends are ignorant. It is just that they know so much that isn't so!"
Second favorite...
"It isn't that my liberal friends are ignorant. It is just that they know so much that isn't so!"
This post was edited on 3/5/18 at 2:05 pm
Posted on 3/5/18 at 2:04 pm to BACONisMEATcandy
most here wern't born yet or were too young to remember the "Reagan administration". He gets way too much praise in my opinion.
Posted on 3/5/18 at 2:08 pm to crash1211
quote:
Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.
That's misleading. What he said was:
"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." [emphasis added]
Posted on 3/5/18 at 2:10 pm to The1TrueTiger
quote:
most here wern't born yet or were too young to remember the "Reagan administration". He gets way too much praise in my opinion.
I put him pretty much right with FDR. Policies themselves are open to debate, and the ills they were elected to fix where greatly helped by things they had little to do with.
From a morale and leadership standpoint, though, they both set a tone that was a watershed away from the precipitous decline they inherited.
Posted on 3/5/18 at 2:11 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
quote:
He can be a hero to conservatives, even when they don't agree with him on everything
Reagan was not a conservative.
quote:
Also, you're taking his quote sort of out of context here. When he said this, it was his belief that the incident he was speaking about was done with a fully automatic AK-47. So here, those are what he is talking about. He was incorrect, it was done with a semi-automatic one.
What? Reagan was a gun control proponent. Bigly.
Posted on 3/5/18 at 2:12 pm to tigernchicago
quote:
The problem with America today is that we tax everythign that is good and subsidize everything that is bad.
It's better cousin was...
"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."
Posted on 3/5/18 at 2:12 pm to Ag Zwin
quote:
No telling how many people in these great 57 states have been led astray by his misstatements.
Reagan was making a killing bringing in cocaine and selling it in America and has the balls to say Marijuana is the most dangerous drug in America. He didn't give one damn about the Constitution, I hold him to same standard as every other President. They can't all be true Constitutional heroes like Grover Cleveland but Reagan isn't close.
Posted on 3/5/18 at 2:15 pm to LSURussian
quote:
“This is a matter of
vital importance to the
public safety ... While
we recognize that
assault-weapon
legislation will not
stop all assault-
weapon crime,
statistics prove that
we can dry up the
supply of these guns,
making them less
accessible to
criminals.”
—Ronald Reagan
quote:
“Every year, an
average of 9,200
Americans are
murdered by
handguns, according to
Department of Justice
statistics. This does not
include suicides or the
tens of thousands of
robberies, rapes, and
assaults committed
with handguns. This
level of violence must
be stopped.”
—Ronald Reagan
quote:
“Certain forms of
ammunition have no
legitimate sporting,
recreational, or self-
defense use and thus
should be prohibited.”
—Ronald Reagan
Posted on 3/5/18 at 2:16 pm to The1TrueTiger
quote:
most here wern't born yet or were too young to remember the "Reagan administration". He gets way too much praise in my opinion.
And you probably think Kennedy was a great President!
Comparing Kennedy to Regan is like comparing a Honda to a Mercedes
You lefties like to bring up Iran Contra but are blind to The Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missle Crisis(caused by Kennedy that almost led the world to WW3, with no success for the US in resolution) and the Vietnam War.
Please tell me one good thing that the Kennedy administration ever accomplished. Tell me one thing they did that changed the world for the better.
Not sorry to inform you but Camelot is a myth!
Kennedy was an awful president who had 2 speeches that he didn't write.
Of course it is common for him because he won a Pulitzer prize for a Novel, Profiles in Courage, which he also didn't write.
This post was edited on 3/5/18 at 2:25 pm
Posted on 3/5/18 at 2:17 pm to MrCarton
2nd amendment was wrote to protect us from him and his kind
Posted on 3/5/18 at 2:18 pm to icheerforgeorgia
quote:
Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
quote:
Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.
quote:
We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
quote:
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
quote:
I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.
Posted on 3/5/18 at 2:18 pm to The1TrueTiger
Were you around for the abortion that was Carter's administration? Reagan was a complete turn around!
One of my heros. He brought the country back from where we were at the end of Carter's inept arse.
One of my heros. He brought the country back from where we were at the end of Carter's inept arse.
Posted on 3/5/18 at 2:19 pm to Loserman
"Any man that tells you he enjoys a cold shower in the morning will lie about other things"
referring to Jimmy Carter's cold shower comment during the 1980 presidential campaign
referring to Jimmy Carter's cold shower comment during the 1980 presidential campaign
Posted on 3/5/18 at 2:20 pm to icheerforgeorgia
quote:
Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
Posted on 3/5/18 at 2:21 pm to Govt Tide
The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.
100% truth!!!!
100% truth!!!!
Posted on 3/5/18 at 2:24 pm to icheerforgeorgia
Reagan quoting Magee when he said that the Challenger astronauts had "slipped the surly bonds of earth". That's my favorite Reagan quote. Credit also goes to Peggy Noonan for writing this speech and using the Magee quote.
This post was edited on 3/5/18 at 2:30 pm
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