

My favorite president? I think it's lights out - Ronald Reagan, "The Gipper", the movie actor who served two terms from 1981-1989. He was the best, and my favorite.

I was part of the Reagan Revolution, a program aimed to reinvigorate the American people and reduce their reliance upon government. According to one biography, he felt he had fulfilled his campaign pledge of 1980 to restore "The great, confident roar of American progress and growth and optimism."

Sadly, those feeling aren't shared by Americans today under the current administration.

But Ronald Reagan's legacy lives on. Today, as we prepare to elect a president to a fresh four years in the White House, I think it's fitting to reflect on Reagan's philosophies, summed up in some of his most favorite quotations. They include:

"Socialism only works

in two places:

Heaven where they don't

need it and hell where they already have it."

"Here's my strategy on

the Cold War:

We win, they lose."

"The most terrifying words

In the English language are:

'I'm from the government

and I'm here to help.'"



"I have wondered at times about what the

Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses

had run them through the U.S. Congress."

"The taxpayer:

That's someone who works

For the federal government

but doesn't have to take the

civil service examination."

"Government is like a baby:

An alimentary canal with a

big appetite at one end and

no sense of responsibility

at the other"

"The nearest thing to eternal

life we will ever see on

this earth is a

government program."


I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first"


If it moves, tax it.


subsidize it"

"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed,

there are many rewards;

if you disgrace yourself,

you can always write a book."

