Ronald Reagan

“So much of our profession is taken up with pretending ... that an actor must spend at least half his waking hours in fantasy. Where's the Rest of Me?”

“The book title is taken from the comment by Drake McHugh (Reagan's character) in the film Kings Row (1942) after his legs have been amputated.”

“Some seem to forget that I’ve worked with those on movies and television . I warn you. Television may be exciting, but always take what you watch or read with a grain of salt. The more extreme these people act, the more money they make. They don’t care about us. You should always do your own research using verified primary sources. Editorials or articles published can be exciting, but they are seldom the truth. This country will eventually be destroyed for the sake of a paycheck. Where's the Rest of Me? First Edition”

“I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at the point of a bayonet, if necessary. As quoted in The Los Angeles Times”

“It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas . As quoted in The Fresno Bee”

“We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry every night. Well, that was probably true. They were all on a diet. Televised speech (27 October 1964), cited in Reagan's Reign of Error (1983) by Mark Green”

“bold new imaginative”

“Back in 1927, an American socialist, Norman Thomas , six times candidate for President on the Socialist Party ticket, said that the American people would never vote for socialism but he said under the name of liberalism the American people would adopt every fragment of the socialist program. Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine”

“Later variant: Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again. California Gubernatorial Inauguration Speech”

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. The only way they can inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it, and then hand it to them with the well fought lessons of how they in their lifetime must do the same. And if you and I don't do this, then you and I may well spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it once was like in America when men were free. Address to the annual meeting of the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce”