"Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force."

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Source : "Think Again: Conservatives Prefer Reagan Fantasies to Reality (And So Did Reagan)" by Eric Alterman, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

Eric Alterman

#Wings Quotes #President Quotes #Legacy Quotes

“I am not very good at keeping secrets at all! If you want your secret kept do not tell me!”
“It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is not to make the attempt.”
“...What you are is a force--a force that makes it possible for your body to live, a force that makes it possible for your whole mind to dream...You are life”
“Nearly every moment of every day we have the opportunity to give something to someone elseâ€”our time, our love, our resources. I have always found more joy in giving when I did not expect anything in return.”
“I have always said I would not have been President had it not been for my experience in North Dakota.”
“There will be certain points of time when everything collides together and reaches critical mass around a new concept or a new thing that ends up being hugely relevant to a high percentage of people or businesses. But it's really really hard to predict those. I don't believe anyone can.”
“Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life.”
“[The U.S. government] was tired of treaties. They were tired of sacred hills. They were tired of ghost dances. And they were tired of all the inconveniences of the Sioux. So they brought out their cannons. 'You want to be an Indian now?' they said, finger on the trigger.”

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