“Here’s my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.” – Ronald Reagan
“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” – Ronald Reagan
“The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant: It’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.” – Ronald Reagan
“Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong.” – Ronald Reagan
“I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandment’s would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.” – Ronald Reagan
“The taxpayer: That’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.” – Ronald Reagan
“Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.” – Ronald Reagan
“The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program.” – Ronald Reagan
“I’ve laid down the law, though, to everyone from now on about anything that happens: no matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.” – Ronald Reagan
“It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.” – Ronald Reagan
“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.” – Ronald Reagan
“Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.” – Ronald Reagan
“No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.” – Ronald Reagan
“If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.” – Ronald Reagan
Road Deaths exceed Iraq casualties
17 February 2007An editorial in USA Today by Marjorie Lieder in Houston states:
“Since 1995, the annual total (road deaths a year) has ranged between 41,000 and 43,000.”
In five years that is approximately 200,000 deaths on US roads.
In five years of the Iraq war, we have had approximately 3,000 deaths.
About 70 of us die in our cars for every one soldier’s death.
If the media reported each of those automobile fatalities on TV every night…
Marjorie Lieder, Houston
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