Blast from the past


Ronald Reagan
  • "Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do."

  • "A tree is a tree. How many more do you have to look at?" --Reagan '66, opposing expansion of Redwood National Park

  • "....80 percent of air pollution comes not from chimneys and auto exhaust pipes, but from plants and trees."

  • "My fellow Americans. I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes." --President Reagan, before a scheduled radio broadcast, unaware that the mike was already on

  • "We're not building missiles to fight a war. We're building missiles to preserve the peace."

  • "As Henry VIII said to each of his three wives, " I won't keep you long." [Whoa- wha' happened to the other three wives? Henry had six.]

  • "We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years."

  • "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!" [wow. He's even older than I thought. The only Thomas Jefferson I'm familiar with died in 1826.]

  • "Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal."

  • "Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours."

  • "I used to say that politics was the second lowest profession and I have come to know that it bears a great similarity to the first."


    "Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century." -- Rush Limbaugh
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