The 10 most famous things never actually said

Political misquotes from The Christian Science Monitor: READ MORE

1. "I am a jelly doughnut!" – John F. Kennedy

2. "To get rich is glorious." – Deng Xiaoping

3. "The ends justify the means." – Niccolò Machiavelli

4. "The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic." – Josef Stalin

5. "I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people." –Dan Quayle

6. "Et tu, Brute?" - Julius Caesar

7. "Let them eat cake." - Marie Antoinette

8. 'First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they attack you. Then you win.' - Mohandas Gandhi

9. 'I invented the Internet.' – Al Gore

10. "I can see Russia from my house!" – Sarah Palin

Who said this?

"Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid"

"The most dangerous myth is the demagoguery that business can be made to pay a larger share, thus relieving the individual. Politicians preaching this are either deliberately dishonest, or economically illiterate, and either one should scare us...
Only people pay taxes, and people pay as consumers every tax that is assessed against a business."

"We cannot play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent"

"Peace is not the absense of conflict; it is the ability to manage conflict by peaceful means"

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

"If the Soviet Union ever let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state... 
because everbody would join the other party"

"How do you tell a communist? He reads Lenin and Marx. And how do you tell an anti-communist? 
Someone who understands Lenin and Marx."

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction; it's not something we pass along in our bloodstream.
It must be fought-for, protected, and passed-along for them to do the same"

"Entrepeneurs and small businesses are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States"

"If you can't make them see the light, let them feel the heat"

"They say the world has become too complex for simple answers... they are wrong"

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

"Recession is when your neighbor loses his job; a depression is when you lose yours"

"Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement..."

RONALD REAGAN

The Perfect Quote About The Obama Presidency

Some people have the vocabulary to sum up things in a way that you can quickly understand them. This quote came from the Czech Republic. Someone over there has it figured out. It was translated into English from an article in the Prague newspaper by Prager Zeitungon on 4/28/10:

The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their President.

The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their President.

Classic Quotes by Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) American President

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.


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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, subsidise it.


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Above all, we must realize that 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. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.


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Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.


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But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

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Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

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Double, no triple, our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth. It is time that we recognized that ours was, in truth, a noble cause.

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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

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Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

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My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

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

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I couldn't help but say to Mr. Gorbachev just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. We'd find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.

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They say hard work never hurt anybody, but, I figure, why take the chance?

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History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

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I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.