Ronald Reagan nejznámější citáty
„Je pravda, že pilná práce ještě nikdy nikoho nezabila, ale já si říkám, proč to riskovat?“
Zdroj: Albright, Madeleine: Doporučení budoucímu prezidentovi : Jak vrátit Americe dobrou pověst a vůdčí roli ve světě (orig. Memo to the president-elect, česky Práh, 2008)
Ronald Reagan: Citáty o lidech
Zdroj: Při Pražském povstání v květnu 1945 padlo na 300 vlasovců. Rusko jejich zásluhy neuznává https://www.lidovky.cz/domov/pri-prazskem-povstani-v-kvetnu-1945-padlo-na-300-vlasovcu-rusko-jejich-zasluhy-neuznava.A191128_150635_ln_domov_ele
Zdroj: https://karelsykora.blog.idnes.cz/blog.aspx?c=664400
Ronald Reagan citáty a výroky
„Nejděsivější slova, jaká v angličtině jsou: Jsem z vlády a přišel jsem pomoct.“
Originál: (en) The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. Source: The President's 38th news conference,Hyatt Regency Hotel, Chicago, ILLINOIS Dostupné online. https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/research/speeches/081286d
/ Výroky
mikrofonová zkouška projevu z osmdesátých let
„Stát není řešením problému, stát je jeho součástí.“
Zdroj: Nástěnný kalendář CEVRO 2011
Originál: (en) 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.
Zdroj: Reagan, Ronald. Remarks to State Chairpersons of the National White House Conference on Small Business. 1986-08-15 [cit. 2014-05-03]. Dostupné online. http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1986/081586e.htm
Originál: (en) She was a loving mother and a gracious, unassuming First Lady. Bess Truman embodies the basic decency of America.
Zdroj: [KREBS, ALBIN, BESS TRUMAN IS DEAD AT 97; WAS PRESIDENT'S 'FULL PARTNER', nytimes.com, 1982-10-19, 2015-11-05, http://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/19/obituaries/bess-truman-is-dead-at-97-was-president-s-full-partner.html?pagewanted=all]
Zdroj: Noonanová, Peggy: Když kraloval charakter (orig. When Character Was King, česky Ideál, 2004)
Z projevu u Braniborské brány 12. června 1987 (o Berlínské zdi)
„Jaká jsou čtyři nejslabší místa sovětského zemědělství? – Jaro, léto, podzim, zima“
Zdroj: https://karelsykora.blog.idnes.cz/blog.aspx?c=664400
Zdroj: Uvedeno v knize Jaroslav Kmenta, Rudý Zeman
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z projevu u Braniborské brány 12. června 1987 (o Berlínské zdi)
Source: http://www.reaganfoundation.org/reagan/speeches/wall.asp
Originál: General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
Zdroj: https://karelsykora.blog.idnes.cz/blog.aspx?c=664400
„Politika je totéž co show business.“
Zdroj: Elizabeth Drew, Portait of an Election: The 1980 Presidential Campaign
Zdroj: https://karelsykora.blog.idnes.cz/blog.aspx?c=664400
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Zdroj: https://karelsykora.blog.idnes.cz/blog.aspx?c=664400
Ronald Reagan: Citáty anglicky
Quoted as an attribution in Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (2013), p. 268
Attributed
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985), First Inaugural address (1981)
Kontext: 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. It is a weapon that we as Americans do have. Let that be understood by those who practice terrorism and prey upon their neighbors.
“Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.”
Remarks at the National Conference of the Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO (30 March 1981)) (source: http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1981/33081b.htm)
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)
Remarks at the Annual Salute to Congress Dinner http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1981/20481b.htm (4 February 1981)
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)
Varianta: Thomas Jefferson once said, "We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works." And ever since he told me that I stopped worrying.
Kontext: Thomas Jefferson made a comment about the Presidency and age. He said that one should not worry about one's exact chronological age in reference to his ability to perform one's task. And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
“Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them.”
Varianta: Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
Joke during his 1965 campaign for Governor of California, as quoted by Leo E. Litwak in The New York Times Magazine (14 November 1965), p. 174 http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50F13FC3B591B7A93C6A8178AD95F418685F9.
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
As quoted in The Reagan Wit (1981) by Bill Adler, p. 30
1960s
“We can't help everyone but everyone can help someone”
Sometimes attributed to Reagan, but the earliest citation attributes the saying to Dr Loretta Scott, 1,600 Quotes & Pieces of Wisdom That Just Might Help You Out When You're Stuck in a Moment https://books.google.com/books?id=quX0r9SkVj8C&pg=PA41&dq=%22we+can%27t+help+everyone%22+%22everyone+can+help+someone%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAGoVChMIk-28w6WkyAIVR5SICh3HOwON#v=onepage&q=%22we%20can't%20help%20everyone%22%20%22everyone%20can%20help%20someone%22&f=false (2003), p. 41
Attributed
“A people free to choose will always choose peace.”
Varianta: A people free to choose will always choose peace
Zdroj: The Quest for Peace, the Cause of Freedom
“Please tell me you're Republicans.”
Speaking to surgeons as he entered the operating room following a 1981 assassination attempt. http://www.rd.com/content/openContent.do?contentId=26804&pageIndex=1 To which Dr. Joseph Giordano replied, "We're all Republicans today." An alternative version has Reagan saying "Please tell me you're Republicans." (30 March 1981)
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)
Varianta: I hope you're all Republican.
Zdroj: Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches