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Your Quotes for 6 February 2006 - Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan was born at Tampico, Illinois on this day in 1911. Based on an early motion picture role he was called "The Gipper." Based on his easy resonance with audiences he was sometimes called "The Great Communicator." I never voted for him, but his successors often made me miss him. And he definitely was quotable.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

Isn't it strange that ... people build walls to keep an enemy out, and there's only one part of the world and one philosophy where they have to build walls to keep their people in?

Most [tax revisions] didn't improve the system, they made it more like Washington itself: complicated, unfair, cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to hire high-priced legal and tax advisers.

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, "I'm from the government and I'm here to help."

To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
     - All from Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1911 - 2004

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