20010121 SDOSM Ronald Reagan's 5 Greatest (Or Infamous) Quotes

Ronald Reagan's 5 Greatest (Or Infamous) Quotes

January 21, 2001

1. How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-communist? It's someone who understand Marx and Lenin.

2. Those young people [demand] the right to send blood to the enemy in Vietnam. I think they should be allowed to do that--providing they send it in the original container." -- as governor of California on anti-war protestors

3. Depression is when you're out of work. A recession is when your neighbor is out of work. Recovery is when Jimmy Carter's out of work." -- on his opponent in the 1980 presidential campaign

4. I'm not worried about the deficit. It's big enough to take care of itself." -- on the federal budget, 1984

5. The party official asks a farmer how thinks are going, and the farmer replies that the harvest is so bountiful that the potatoes would reach the foot of God if piled on top of one another. 'But this is the Soviet Union,' says the commissar. 'There is no God here.' The farmer replies, 'That's right. There are no potatoes either.' -- a favorite joke about the former U.S.S.R.

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