The Great Communicator

You Really have to love this guy. God rest his soul.

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."

"The trouble  with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just  that they know so much that isn't so."

"Of the four  wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong."  

"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."  

"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."

"If we ever  forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone  under."

"The nearest  thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government  program."

"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."

"It has been  said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that  it bears a striking resemblance to the first."

"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."

"Politics is  not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you  disgrace yourself you can always write a book."

"No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will  and moral courage of free men and women.