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Ronald Reagan
40th President of the United States
Politics · Modern
Quotes
Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's "bold new imaginative" program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut it is still old Karl Marx — first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother to us all. Hitler called his "State Socialism" and way before him it was "benevolent monarchy.
It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.
I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at the point of a bayonet, if necessary.
I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry every night. Well, that was probably true. They were all on a diet.
God made all his creations in different colors. It would be pretty boring if we all looked the same.
Back in 1927, an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for President on the Socialist Party ticket, said that the American people would never vote for socialism but he said under the name of liberalism the American people would adopt every fragment of the socialist program.
Every morning Nancy and I turn to see what he has to say about people of our respective birth signs.
A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
So much of our profession is taken up with pretending ... that an actor must spend at least half his waking hours in fantasy.