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If you haven't read this week's Time Magazine, stop and pick one up. There's an article titled "Where the Right Went Wrong". It looks at the dismal place the Republicans are currently in, and what Reagan would do and say. For his many faults (and he had quite a few), I believe that Reagan was our best president thusfar. Look at what he did for the Republican party alone - they were able to coast on his ideas for over 20 years. And now, when things have gone to hell, they want him back even though he hasn't been in a political office for over 18 years.


Let me stop lecturing. Here are some good quotes from Mr. Reagan himself (and no, I'm not a republican, but I probably would have been one in 1981).

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

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.

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.

I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves.

I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

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

I know in my heart that man is good.
That what is right will always eventually triumph.
And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.

If you're afraid of the future, then get out of the way, stand aside. The people of this country are ready to move again.

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
(For those of you who are illiterate, the first was prostitution.)

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.
--Said during a radio microphone test, 1984