Posted by
TampaDoc on Sunday, February 22, 2009 11:47:00 PM
It's always been my belief that a leaders legacy is carved in history by the quotes that define them. To this end I've decided to do a comparison of quotes. A battle of wits if you will. A chance for us to identify with who or what we believe in. A chance to look back and see if they lived up to their quotes or in the now, if they will live up to their quotes. I must say that there is an imbalance of quotes toward Reagan. After all he was the great communicator. So don't think I loaded it up that way, I ran out of Obamanations so I cut down the Reganisms. Sit back and enjoy these quotes. Who ever you are, one way or the other I hope they will inspire you.
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Ronald Reagan
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
Ronald Reagan
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
Barack Obama
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
Ronald Reagan
I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
Barack Obama
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Ronald Reagan
I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House.
Barack Obama
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.
Ronald Reagan
A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'
Barack Obama
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 understands Marx and Lenin.
Ronald Reagan
I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.
Barack Obama
I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.
Ronald Reagan
I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.
Barack Obama
If the Federal Government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.
Ronald Reagan
This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
Barack Obama
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.
Ronald Reagan
The crisis is so deep it will become irreversible without strong government actions.
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Once a government programs once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
Ronald Reagan
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
Barack Obama
Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.
Ronald Reagan
The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.
Barack Obama
A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance, self-discipline, morality, and, above all, responsible liberty for every individual that we will become that shining city on a hill.
I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.
Barack Obama
Abraham Lincoln freed the black man. In many ways, Dr. King freed the white man. How did he accomplish this tremendous feat? Where others — white and black — preached hatred, he taught the principles of love and nonviolence.
We've got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there.
Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.
I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience.
When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.
Barack Obama
It does require, however, our best effort and our willingness to believe in ourselves and to believe in our capacity to perform great deeds, to believe that together with God's help we can and will resolve the problems which now confront us. And after all, why shouldn't we believe that? We are Americans.
We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.
Barack Obama
The ten most dangerous words in the English language are "Hi, I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."
The crisis is so deep it will become irreversible without strong government actions.
Well I've said it before and I'll say it again — America's best days are yet to come. Our proudest moments are yet to be. Our most glorious achievements are just ahead.
You're, uh, um, ah, ah ah ya, ya , um give me a, a, a chance Bill and I'll answer that.
Barack Obama
When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.
Ronald Reagan
This campaign can't only be about me...It must be about what we can do together.
Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.
I inhaled. That was the point
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
Ronald Reagan
Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.”
No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
Ronald Reagan
They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.
Ronald Reagan
I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democrtatic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.
Ronald Reagan
Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.
Ronald Reagan
My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.
Ronald Reagan
I hope you enjoyed these.